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Congress president Tomás Zambrano announced that lawmakers will formally introduce next week a bill to strengthen the National Electoral Council (CNE) by clarifying its powers and functions to prevent institutional paralysis caused by members' absences or withdrawals during elections.

A Liberal Party congresswoman introduced an electoral-reform bill that would hold presidential elections and congressional–municipal elections on separate dates.

More than half of the Liberal Party's congressional members oppose energy-sector reforms being pushed by the party's legislative leader, Jorge Cálix, with lawmakers citing concerns that the proposal lacks popular support and needs deeper analysis.

The Liberal Party caucus presented a counterproposal to the government's energy-reform law, saying it includes legal safeguards and structural guarantees to benefit Hondurans while preventing what lawmakers call privatization risks to state utility ENEE.

Former Congress President Luis Redondo's legal team filed an injunction to block the swearing-in of a forensic expert commissioned to analyze videos of a National Congress session on January 8, 2026, in a public ministry investigation into former Permanent Commission members.

Marvin Ponce alleged Wednesday that five Liberal Party members of Congress are demanding bribes in exchange for votes on energy reforms aimed at reducing electricity theft and restructuring the state utility into three separate entities.