The elections were allegedly heavily rigged and the PUN won all 58 seats.
[3] Shortly after the elections the government announced that the Constituent Assembly would convene on 1 November and that it would elect Julio Lozano Díaz as president with General Abraham Williams Calderón as first vice president.
[5] The top conspirators included Colonel Héctor Caraccioli, head of the air force, Major Roberto Gálvez Barnes, Minister of Development and General Roque J. Rodríguez, director of the military academy in Tegucigalpa.
They organized a military government with Rodríguez as its apparent leader, primarily because of his seniority.
[6] Lozano was exiled and Fresh elections were held in September 1957.