Luis Rolando Redondo Guifarro (born 20 January 1973) is a Honduran politician and engineer, serving as deputy and current disputed president of the National Congress of Honduras since 25 January 2022.

Early life and career

Redondo began as a businessman in San Pedro Sula. He got involved supporting the Honduras National Team, traveling everywhere they played, becoming head of the ''barra'' since 2004. In that same year he met

Salvador Nasralla Salvador Alejandro César Nasralla Salum (born 30 January 1953) is a Honduran civil engineer, sports journalist, television presenter, businessman, and politician who served as the First Vice President of Honduras from 2022 until his resignatio ...

, with whom he began a friendship. He traveled to the

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and

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, along with the national team. In 2011, he supported Nasralla for the creation of the

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and, in turn, became a candidate for deputy to Congress, in the 2013 election, in which he was elected.

Partido Anticorrupcion

In 2016, a crisis began within the Anti-Corruption Party with Nasralla being accused of being "badly advised" which led to a dispute between Nasralla and

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about which of them would become the party's presidential candidate, the latter winning the dispute, while Nasralla would be appointed as the

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- PINU presidential candidate. Redondo left PAC and joined PINU to run for Congress, being elected.

Congressional president

In October 2021, the presidential candidates for PSH and

, Salvador Nasralla and

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, respectively, struck an alliance. Part of the agreement for Nasralla to step down as a candidate and endorse Castro was that if they were able to gain a majority in Congress, the head of Congress would be a member of the Savior Party. Castro's party won 50 seats, whilst Nasralla's party won 10. On December 23, during a livestream, Nasralla announced his endorsement for Luis Redondo to become the President of the Congress. The next morning, Castro followed suit. When the newly elected congress voted for a congressional president on 21 January 2022, 18 deputies from Castro's party refused to honour the agreement. Instead, with support from opposition parties they voted for Jorge Cálix, a member of LIBRE, rather than Redondo. Nasralla commented on the incident as "another coup like in

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". As a consequence, the 18 deputies were expelled from LIBRE. The dispute was resolved when Cálix agreed to renounce his claim to the Presidency of the Congress, allowing Redondo to lead the Congress. Cálix's and the expelled deputies' membership of LIBRE was subsequently restored by LIBRE's leader

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