Tegucigalpa, July 12, (RHC).- The National Resistance Front (FNRP) in Honduras reiterated its call to set up a Constituent Assembly to amend the Constitution currently in force and transform the country.

Speaking at a meeting to establish the First National Assembly of the People’s National Resistance Front, a leader of the Liberal Party of Honduras and deputy to the Central American Parliament, Gloria Oqueli, said they need “a State respectful of rights rather than a right State for a privileged minority.”

The Front was created after the coup on June 28th, 2009, which ousted the government of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. The resistance movement is made up of trade unions, farmer workers, indigenous and humanitarian groups, intellectuals and politicians who condemned the military uprising.

The Front members and followers participated Sunday in the assembly, held in Tocoa city in Colon province.

So far, the Front has managed to collect more than 650,000 signatures nationwide demanding a call for a Constituent Assembly and the return of Manuel Zelaya.

In comments to reporters, a representative of the commission for popular consultation, Eulogio Chavez, said the process is underway thanks to the voluntary work carried out by activists in all 18 provinces.

The Front’s goal is to collect another 200,000 signatures for the call to amend the Constitution “to guarantee respect for the rights of every Honduran citizen and to democratize politics, the economy, culture and social life.”