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Liberal Party of Honduras Partido Liberal de Honduras
Founded	5th February 1891
Headquarters	Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Youth wing	Liberal Revolutionary Students Guild
Ideology	Liberalism
Political position	Centre-right
International affiliation	Liberal International, Democratic Centre group of the Central American Parliament.
Official colors	Red
Website
http://www.partidoliberaldehonduras.hn/

The Liberal Party of Honduras (Partido Liberal de Honduras) is a centre-right liberal party in Honduras that was founded in 1891. The party is a member of Liberal International. The PLH is identified with the color red while its principal rival, the National Party of Honduras (PNH), is blue.

[edit] 2001 elections

At the legislative elections, held on 25 November 2001, the party won 40.8% of the popular vote and 55 out of 128 seats in Congress. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Rafael Pineda Ponce won 44.3%, but was defeated by Ricardo Maduro of the National Party of Honduras.

[edit] 2005 elections

The PLH won the closely contested 2005 presidential race, but at the moment^[update] the PNH has a majority in the National Congress due to an alliance with the Christian Democrats (Democracia Cristiana).

In the general election of 27 November 2005, the party won 62 out of 128 seats in the National Congress; and its Presidential candidate, Manuel Zelaya, polled 49.9% to defeat the PNH's Porfirio Pepe Lobo, restoring the PLH as the presidential party. He was inaugurated on 27 January 2006.

[edit] 2009 elections

The elections of 2009 were held under a state of emergency decree and in the worst political crisis of recent history in Honduras. After Liberal President Manuel Zelaya was forcibly expelled from office and the country the executive power is held by Roberto Micheletti, whose government has not been recognized as legitimate by any country in the world. Liberal candidate and ex vice president, elected with zelaya, Elvin Santos could not surmount inner division in the party as to wether he was in favour or not of the events of june 28 which the OAS has called a coup d'etat. This caused a vast sector of the traditionally larger party to refrain from participating in the elections which resulted in the worst electoral results in the Liberal Party's 118 year history.

[edit] See also

• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberalism in Honduras
• Gremio Estudiantil Revolucionario Liberal

[edit] External links

• Liberal Party of Honduras official site

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