Editing Porfirio Lobo Sosa (section)

===First year of government===
Porfirio Lobo was rejected by the Honduran citizenry in his first year in office. According to a survey conducted by the University Institute of Public Opinion (IUDOP) in conjunction with the Reflection, Research and Communication Team (ERIC) of Honduras, Lobo Sosa was rated with an average grade of 5.11, on a scale of 0 to 10. 

At the end of 2010 almost half of the people (45.5%) believed that the country had worsened under the Lobo government. While 39.3% assured that things remained the same, and only 14.5% considered that the country had improved. However, when asked if Lobo's management represents a positive or negative change, 49% of those surveyed said that the change was positive against 38% that it was negative. 7.8% assured that the Lobo administration is more of the same.

Among the achievements attributed to Lobo Sosa in his first year in office, the approval of the National Plan and the granting of Bono 10,000 stand out as the only two promises that the President has managed to begin to fulfill in 2010. The National Plan It has been analyzed since 1998, but it was not until the government of Lobo Sosa that its approval became a reality. Although it has not been fully implemented, some important aspects are already known, such as its first objective, which is to eradicate extreme poverty; educated, healthy citizens with social security systems by 2022.

On the other hand, Lobo's main failures in his first year in office were the increased violence and insecurity, which represents one of the main sources of concern within the Honduran population. 63.4% of Hondurans believe that crime increased during 2010. 25.2% assured that things were the same and only 11.4% thought that crime decreased.

Likewise, 51.75% of the population stated that the presence of [[drug trafficking]] had increased in the country. While 23.45% claimed to have been a direct victim of a criminal act. “A revealing fact related to the institutions responsible for ensuring the safety of the population is that 50.8% of Hondurans believe that the police are involved with crime, only a little more than a fifth 22.0 % consider that the police protect citizens, 18.9% think that some members of the police protect others who are linked to crime”, indicates the IUOP and ERIC survey.