Margarita Sikaffi
Margarita Dabdoub Sikaffi is a Honduran politician. She is commonly known as "Margie Dip". She was the first female mayor of La Ceiba. She served as mayor of La Ceiba 1994–1998.
Prior to entering electoral politics, Sikaffi worked as spokesperson for the Standard Fruit Company. She was named as governor of the Atlantida department by president Manuel Zelaya. Following the 2009 Honduran coup d'etat, that ousted Zelaya, Sikaffi said she had not been a "cuartista" but opposed the coup.
Sikaffi was elected to the National Congress of Honduras in the 2009 general election as a Liberal candidate in Atlantida. With 30,234 votes, she was the most voted Liberal candidate in the constituency. In the Liberal Party primaries, she had finished in second place in Atlantida with 12,603 votes. She was a candidate of the Elvinist Liberal Movement.
In May 2013, Sikaffi declared her intent to contest the La Ceiba mayoral post once again, in the primaries of the Libre party. Dabdoub was nominated as the candidate of the June 28 Movement of Liberals in Resistance. Sikaffi emerged victorious, obtaining 5,364 votes, becoming the mayoral candidate of Libre in La Ceiba in the 2013 general election.
Sikaffi is the president of a charity named after her, Fundación Margie.