Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, Cecilia Graciela. Elections Under Suspicion. Analysis of the General Elections in Honduras 2017. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2019, n.54, pp.203-232. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n54a11.

This article addresses the last Honduran electoral process, initiated in March of 2017 with the Primary Elections and concluded on November 26 of that same year with the questioned General Elections that gave as winner to Juan Orlando Hernández, candidate for the official National Party of Honduras (PNH), after prevailing in the polls by a narrow margin of votes that put in prohibition to the Supreme Electoral Court for the suspicion of electoral fraud. To this end, the study describes the main characteristics of the Honduran party system as well as the political, social and economic context prior to the elections, it discusses the electoral processes that took place in 2017; and, finally, it analyzes the results and the consequences of these processes for the party system. As conclusion, we found that the coup d’état of 2009, the electoral results of 2013 and 2017, and the performance of the Government in the socioeconomic field have provoked the citizen discontent, distrust in the traditional political families and the renovation of the Honduran political class.

Keywords : Electoral System; Elections; Political Change; Political Parties; Honduras.

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