OPPOSITION candidate Salvador Nasralla issued a call at the weekend for the Honduran presidential election to be rerun after the government authorised the security forces to quell mass unrest.

Cabinet secretary Jorge Hernandez said that some constitutional guarantees would be suspended for 10 days to allow security forces to bring the situation under control and a 6pm-to-6am curfew was declared nationwide.

“The curfew is to safeguard the security of the country,” he said after meeting poll observers from the Organisation of American States and the European Union.