‘They do not have the slightest moral authority to talk about deception,’ Redondo responds to Zambrano
The president of the National Congress reacted to the epithets of the leader of the nationalist bench, after he prevented the presentation of a motion to question the military chief.
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“Those who practice it daily and who were even prosecuted by the MACCIH for manipulating laws do not have the slightest moral authority to speak of deceit or cynicism,” responded the president of the National Congress, Luis Redondo, in a post on his X account (formerly Twitter) on Monday.
Redondo’s message was directed, first of all, at the head of the National Party, Tomás Zambrano, who over the weekend called him a “liar and cynic” after rejecting a motion to question the head of the Honduran Armed Forces.
With a statement published on social media on Sunday, Redondo put an end to the National Party’s attempts to present a motion, which would be presented by deputy Jorge Zelaya, to hold the military chief accountable for making statements against the “oligarchy” and in favor of the Tax Justice Law considered to be political in nature .
What would have bothered the head of the opposition party’s bench are the repeated blockages by the head of the Legislature, who not only denied them the right to speak, but also in the session on Wednesday promised to schedule the motion of interpellation of Roosevelt Hernández on Thursday, something that he ultimately failed to do.
But in response to Zambrano’s comments, Redondo not only mentioned that several nationalist deputies, including the current head of the caucus , appear in some of the investigations of the defunct Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), but also responded that “a legislative agreement immediately ceases to have value when one of the parties deceives the other.”
He also attacked that “there is no legislative ethics when you say you will do something and you hide what you really intend to do, even deceiving your own colleagues in the bench, without worrying about sacrificing them by leading them to commit illegal acts,” although without specifying exactly what the deception would be about or whether it has to do with the motion that the National Party intended to present.
