1965 Honduran Constituent Assembly election explained

Constituent Assembly elections were held in Honduras on 12 February 1965.^[1] The Constituent Assembly subsequently elected Oswaldo López Arellano as president.

Aftermath

The Constituent Assembly held its first session in March and elected a new president. The opposition Liberal Party unsuccessfully attempted to block the election,^[2] and some Liberal members of the Assembly, led by labor leader Céleo González, refused to participate in the vote.^[3]

Notes and References

1. [Dieter Nohlen]
2. Thomas P. Anderson (1981) The war of the dispossessed: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969, p63
3. Helen Schooley (1987) Conflict in Central America, p38
4. Thomas P. Anderson (1988) Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, [132</ref> However, [[Oswaldo López Arellano]] was elected to serve as president for a six-year term with effect from June, when the Constituent Assembly was also redesignated as a full legislative assembly.^[3]

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