US EditionHonduran Leader Alleges Vote Tampering, US Interference
Castro alleges manipulation and US interference amid stalled vote counting; Trump-backed candidate leads with 40.53% while rivals demand recounts and annulment.
- Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras, alleged an "electoral coup" and US interference led by Donald Trump as the National Electoral Council must announce results by December 30th.
- Since the November 30th election, successive computer failures and National Electoral Council website outages stalled the count, while Xiomara Castro said threats and manipulation of the TREP system marked the process.
- Preliminary counts show Nasry 'Tito' Asfura narrowly ahead with a roughly 42,000-vote margin and 99.4 per cent of tally sheets reported, while Rixi Moncada trails at 19.29 per cent and 14.5 per cent of sheets show discrepancies, demanding review.
- The Trump administration maintained the vote was fair despite publicly backing Nasry Asfura, while Johel Zelaya, Honduran Attorney General, ordered Interpol to pursue Juan Orlando Hernández.
- Asserting that sovereignty belongs to Hondurans, Castro pledged to pursue international denouncements to the United Nations, European Union, CELAC and OAS, insisting sovereignty "resides in the people, exclusively in the Honduran people.
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President Xiomara Castro denounces US manipulation and interference, while candidates Nasri Asfoura and Salvador Nasrallah claim a narrow lead
Honduran President Xiomara Castro has accused US President Donald Trump of meddling in her country's elections and has called the results rigged. The final results of the November 30 election are not yet known, but Trump-backed conservative candidate Nasry Asfura has a narrow lead in preliminary results.
The outgoing president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, condemned Tuesday the interference of the tenant of the White House, Donald Trump, in the contested presidential elections in the Latin American country, marked by the repeated problems with the scrutiny and by the statements of the New York tycoon. “From here, from this house of justice, I condemn the interference of the President of the United States, Donald Trump. (...) He violated the most …
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Honduran leader alleges vote tampering, US interference
Honduran President Xiomara Castro on Tuesday denounced what she called tampering with results in the recent general election, and accused US counterpart Donald Trump of interfering in the vote.
Honduran president to denounce ‘electoral coup’ to United Nations
TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Honduran President Xiomara Castro said on Tuesday she will denounce an “electoral coup” in the country’s presidential vote to international organizations including the United Nations, European Union and Organization of American States. The Central American nation’s November 30 vote was peaceful, but the processing of its results has been marred by technical failures, fraud allegations and a password securit…
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