Seventeen parties are fielding candidates for local councils, national and Central American lawmakers, three vice presidents and for the post of president.
Hondurans were called to vote in party primaries on Sunday, a first polling phase President Juan Orlando Hernandez hopes will lead to his re-election despite a constitutional one-term limit.
Seventeen parties are fielding candidates for local councils, national and Central American lawmakers, three vice presidents and for the post of president.
Hernandez' bid for a new four-year mandate at the head of the ruling National Party is buoyed by a Supreme Court ruling two years ago discarding the term-limit clause in the 1982 constitution.
One of his challengers is likely to be Xiomara Castro, the wife of Manuel Zelaya, a former president who was ousted by the military in 2009 as he tried to change the constitution in a way many suspected was meant to let him stay in power beyond one term.
Castro is on the ballot for the leftwing Liberty and Refoundation Party, also known as Libre.
All of Honduras' 5.8 million registered voters were invited to cast votes in Sunday's primary.
The elections are scheduled to take place on November 26.
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