2009 Honduran general election

Honduran presidential election, 2009

November 29, 2009

Nominee Porfirio Lobo Sosa Bernard '''Martínez''' Felicito '''Ávila''' Party National Innovation and Unity Party-Social-Democracy CD   Nominee Elvin Santos César Ham Carlos H. Reyes Party Liberal UD Independent

Incumbent President Roberto Micheletti Liberal

Presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in Honduras on November 29, 2009. Voters will go to the polls to elect:

• A new President of the Republic to serve a four-year term, replacing current de facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti, who replaced the elected president Manuel Zelaya, who was removed during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis/coup d'etat. Both Zelaya and Micheletti are ineligible for re-election under the 1982 Constitution).
• 128 members to serve a four-year term in the National Congress.

Primaries

Internal party elections were held on 30 November 2008. Only the Liberal Party and National Party participated in these elections, since the smaller parties lack significant factions. They were supervised by the official electoral body, and the 48 hour ban on the sale of alcohol which accompanies all official elections was also imposed over that weekend.

Presidential election

The candidates of the two main political parties are former presidential candidate Porfirio Lobo Sosa of the National Party and former vice-president Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party. Minor parties will also present their own candidates. The trade union leader Carlos Humberto Reyes is an independent candidate for the election.

The table below shows the six candidates, in the order published by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

Candidate	Party/Independent
Porfirio Lobo Sosa	National Party
Bernard Martínez	Innovation and Unity Party-Social-Democracy
Felicito Ávila	Christian Democrat Party
Elvin Santos	Liberal Party
César Ham	Democratic Unification Party
Carlos H. Reyes	Independent