Decree 10-2018
Poder Ejecutivo
- Decree: 10-2018
- Published: August 9, 2018
- Issuing body: Poder Ejecutivo
- Gazette: 34,714
- Category: Constitutional
Summary
This decree creates a government commission to participate in political dialogues with other national sectors, seeking to resolve conflicts and reach agreements that strengthen national unity and well-being. Agreements reached in these dialogues are considered official government commitments. It applies to all political sectors and Honduran society.
Considerations
That the President of the Republic is responsible for the general administration of the State and the supreme direction and coordination of the Centralized and Decentralized Public Administration.
That Honduras is a member State of the Organization of the United Nations with its Constitutional Government duly recognized by the international community and said organization, according to a letter sent to the Government of the Republic by the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres on February 4, 2022.
That the General Law of Public Administration empowers the President of the Republic to create commissions composed of public officials, personalities and representatives of diverse sectors of national life, with the powers determined by the Decrees of their creation.
That Dialogue is an essential and effective instrument for the search for solutions to all kinds of conflicts, particularly those with social or political repercussions, and is always an appropriate option to carry out an inclusive and non-exclusive participation and that contributes to national harmony, as well as at the same time supports the work of institutions of constitutional rank.
That the search for consensus must transcend the merely formal dimension in order to become an effective means to reach concrete agreements that are supported by the political forces of the Nation and guarantee the strengthening of the Rule of Law.
Articles
Recognize political dialogue, with the technical facilitation of the United Nations Organization as a space for encounter among the various political sectors, in search of concrete solutions to consolidate the unity of the Honduran family and promote prosperity and national well-being. Any attempt to use the dialogue process for purposes contrary to the foregoing shall lack legitimacy.
Appoint as members of the Commission of Representation of the Executive Power in political dialogue the following citizens: 1. Ébal Jaír Díaz Lupián, Secretary of State in the Office of the Presidency; and, 2. Héctor Leonel Ayala Alvarenga, Secretary of State in the Offices of Justice, Governance and Decentralization.
This Commission shall be presided over by the Secretary of State in the Office of the Presidency, delegating to him broad powers to approve, on behalf of the Executive Power, all agreements deemed necessary within the framework of political dialogue, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws, which assume the category of Government commitments.
Recognize the agreements that are consensual among all participants within the framework of political dialogue with the technical facilitation of the United Nations Organization.
This Decree shall enter into force as of the day of its publication in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta". Given in the city of Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, in the Presidential House, on the ninth (09) day of the month of August of the year two thousand eighteen (2018). JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ ALVARADO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC ÉBAL JAÍR DÍAZ LUPIÁN SECRETARIAT OF THE PRESIDENCY
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