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Elections for new leaders of Honduras's electoral bodies—the CNE and TJE—will likely slip from this year into January 2027 due to lack of consensus among congressional factions, says the head of Congress's Electoral Commission.

Culture Minister Yasser Handal faced backlash after replacing the commemorative plaque on a community center that opened under the previous government, renaming it and adding his name and President Asfura's; he apologized and said the plaque would be removed.

Honduran agriculture officials and Brazilian representatives agreed to draft a memorandum of understanding focused on technology transfer, improved seeds for staple crops, and soy development, with the aim of boosting productivity and food security.

Honduras and a dozen other American countries in the Shield of the Americas coalition expressed support for Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz and condemned destabilization attempts, citing concerns that protests and road blockades are disrupting food and medicine supplies.

A draft law to be sent to Congress on June 10 would create a Judicial Council to handle administrative functions—hiring, promotions, and discipline—with safeguards against nepotism, conflicts of interest, and political interference, separating those duties from the Supreme Court's judicial role.

A proposal by Liberal congressman Yury Sabas would lower the minimum driving age to 16, permitting teenagers to operate light vehicles between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m. under a reformed Traffic Law.

A bill before Congress would raise femicide sentences to 25–30 years (or 30–40 for aggravated cases), create specialized courts nationwide to handle gender-violence crimes, and broaden the legal definition of power imbalance between men and women.

The National Congress reversed its previous day's approval of a two-month extension for candidates who failed to file required campaign-finance reports, leaving them exposed to fines up to 90,000 lempiras and prosecution by the attorney general's office.

The Public Ministry says no investigation has been opened into Rony Pacheco, director of the National Statistics Institute (INE), who is also listed as an employee of the National Electoral Council (CNE), pending a report from the Court of Accounts to determine whether his dual roles violate civil-service law.

Congress president Tomás Zambrano has called a June 9 meeting between ride-hailing platforms including Uber, inDriver, and VIP taxi services and Congress's Transportation Commission to discuss regulation and enforcement actions by the transport authority.

Francisco Cosenza, former director of Honduras's Security Tax (Tasa de Seguridad), was sentenced in Miami to five years of home detention after pleading guilty to money laundering and bribery charges tied to over $10 million in padded police uniform and supply contracts.

President Asfura introduced a bill to modernize ENEE, Honduras's state electric company, through operational restructuring aimed at recovering more than 16 billion lempiras annually in system losses that could be redirected to health, education, roads, and social programs.

Congress approved legislation declaring agricultural and agro-industrial lands exempt from land reform and other seizure, mandating immediate police action against invasions and road blockades, and requiring streamlined permitting for the sector, which contributes roughly 6.5 billion lempiras to GDP.