Politics in Honduras

Lobo Claims Zelaya Wanted Re-Election

January 29, 2011 by Catracha Hondurena No Comments

In an interview with radio station Radio Globo today, President Porfirio Lobo said that ousted leader Manuel Zelaya once told him point-blank he wanted to stay in power despite a constitutional ban on re-election, and asked him to drop his lagging campaign for Honduras’ top office, though he did not say what Zelaya allegedly offered him in return.

According to Lobo’s account of a conversation in March 2009, three months before the coup, Zelaya remarked that Lobo’s opponent was ahead by 15 percentage points in the race.

“He said to me, ‘We had better fix this,'” Lobo said. “And I asked, ‘What do you want? And he answered, ‘I want re-election.'”

Lobo said he turned Zelaya down. He went on to win the November 2009 election.

Lobo said last month that he is working with prosecutors to find a way for Zelaya to face charges in Honduras without being placed in police custody.


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