Moncada wins candidacy for Honduras’ presidency

Honduras' Defense Minister Rixi Moncada was elected on Monday as a presidential candidate of the ruling Liberty and Refoundation Party (LIBRE) for the November 30 general elections. 
 
 
Moncada won overwhelmingly in the primary and internal elections held this Sunday over her co-religionist Rasel Tome and became the candidate with the highest number of votes among the three main parties.

During a press briefing at the ruling LIBRE headquarters, the leader proclaimed herself the winner and detailed, according to the preliminary results of the biometric system, to have reached 93 percent of the votes, against seven percent obtained by Tome.

She thanked the Honduran people for their confidence and pledged to continue the transformation process undertaken by President Xiomara Castro three years ago.

At midnight, Moncada highlighted -always based on biometrics implemented in these primary elections- that LIBRE got some 725,000 registrations, surpassing the right-wing National Party (PN) with 691,000, and the Liberal Party (PL) with 586,000, the main opposition parties.