US EditionConservative Asfura leads Honduras presidential elections, preliminary results show
Nasry Asfura leads with 40.54% of votes in early count amid a virtual tie with Salvador Nasralla, as Honduras faces political polarization and fraud allegations.
- On November 30, Nasry Asfura, National Party candidate and former mayor of Tegucigalpa, led the preliminary count with 40.54% and about 43% of polling places counted.
- Trump intervened in the campaign days before the vote by endorsing Nasry Asfura and pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández on December 1, intensifying the polarized campaign.
- Observers and the CNE urged patience, with Ana Paola Hall calling it a 'technical tie' as Asfura leads by just 515 votes and citing transmission issues delaying 43% of tally sheets.
- The CNE has up to 30 days to certify results, with officials saying results could be declared before Christmas; General Roosevelt Hernández said the military will recognize new authorities only after the National Electoral Council publishes official results, stressing physical ballot backups exist for manual verification.
- A rightward shift could reshape Honduras' foreign alignments as the vote will choose a president, 128 members of Congress, and 298 mayors amid migration and fragile institutions.
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Ecuadornews: The candidate for the presidency of Honduras Salvador Nasralla has denounced this Thursday electoral fraud in the contested count that is taking place these days after the troubled elections this Sunday, and that now they place him with just 9,000 votes behind the candidate of the National Party, Nasry Asfura. Nasralla has told this Thursday that at 03:24 a.m., local time, “the screen was turned off and an algorithm changed the data…
The technical tie between presidential candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla keeps many Hondurans skeptical.
In Honduras, the candidate supported by Donald Trump, Nasry Asfura, could win the presidential elections that were held on November 30th. Even if it turns out to be more complicated than expected. This is the main reason why Donald Trump is supporting politicians in Latin America.
Honduras presidential race deadlocked as Trump makes unsubstantiated fraud claims
Honduras's presidential election remained virtually tied late on December 1 with two conservative candidates separated by just 515 votes, as officials urged patience whilst they complete a hand count of ballots.
The Honduran National Electoral Council revealed that Asfura, an ex-autarca of 67 years, led the race against Nasralla, 72 years old, for only 515 votes, after 57% of the urinary population.
The election is on Messer's edge, as right-wing candidate Nasry "Tito" Asfura and the centrist Salvador Nasralla are exactly the same in the most recent counting of votes.
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