National Popular Resistance Front

The National Popular Resistance Front or National People's Resistance Front (Spanish: Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular, FNRP), frequently referred to as the National Resistance Front, is a wide coalition of Honduran grassroots organisations and political parties and movements that aims to restore elected President Manuel Zelaya and hold a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution.

The Front originated as a popular social movement which used massive civil disobedience to support the restoration of Zelaya in replacement of the de facto President Roberto Micheletti, whose government was perceived as a dictatorship in existence since 28 June 2009, the 2009 Honduran coup d'état. The National Resistance Front pointed to Article 3 of the 1982 Constitution as a legal basis for opposing the de facto government, and argued that it constituted the organised expression of Hondurans' right, under that article, to resist a government imposed by armed force.

After the Honduran general election, 2009 saw Porfirio Lobo Sosa elected President, the FNRP continued to press for a constituent assembly, and to oppose the government's human rights abuses. Human Rights Watch reported in July 2010 that under Lobo Sosa "at least eight journalists and ten members of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP)" had been killed. By August 2010 the FNRP had collected half of its target of 1.2m signatures in support of a constituent assembly.

The Front was originally known by a number of variants of its name - National Resistance Front against the Coup d'État in Honduras (Frente Nacional contra el Golpe de Estado en Honduras,Frente Nacional de Resistencia Contra el Golpe de Estado - FNGE) or simply the National Resistance Front (Frente Nacional de la Resistencia).

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