US EditionTrump Accuses Honduras of ‘Trying to Change’ Outcome of Presidential Vote
Trump accused Honduran election officials of altering results during a manual recount in a razor-thin race, warning of consequences if his endorsed candidate loses.
- On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump accused Honduran election officials of trying to change the presidential outcome and urged the National Electoral Commission to finish counting votes.
- The National Electoral Commission stopped its digital tally at midnight on November 30th and Ana Paola Hall, head of the National Electoral Council, appealed for patience as ballots were moved and manually checked.
- With 57 percent counted, Asfura led Nasralla by 500 votes, making the race extremely close, as the official count paused on November 30th.
- Days before the vote, Trump endorsed Nasry “Tito” Asfura and said, `If he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad`, while nearly 30,000 Honduran migrants have been deported since January.
- Preemptive fraud claims have raised fears of unrest, and a swing to the right could strengthen U.S. regional influence in Honduras, a country of 11 million where remittances were 27 percent of GDP last year.
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The candidate of the conservative National Party (PN), Nasry Asfura, returned on Thursday to take the lead in the presidential elections of Honduras, although for just 8,000 815 votes, displacing the contender of the centrist Liberal Party (PLH), Salvador Nasralla, according to official data to 84.55 percent of the minutes transmitted. Asfura, former mayor of Tegucigalpa and who is openly backed by the President of the United States, Donald Trum…
Honduran National Party candidate Nasry Asfura returned this Thursday to lead the vote count after Sunday's elections, with an advantage of about 14,000 votes over Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, with a scrutiny of the...
Almost 85% of the votes were voted against
The results of the presidential elections in Honduras still have to be taken with caution, but two things seem clear when more than 78% of the votes are being scrutinized: the beating of the official candidate, Rixi Moncada, with just 19.02%, which means a slap on Xiomara Castro's left-wing presidency, and that the Trump effect is not always a guarantee of electoral victory.Continue reading...
The electoral authority asked the population for rest while trying to resolve a system failure that did not allow 20 percent of the votes to be counted.
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