US EditionHonduras starts special count of final votes in its presidential election after pressure from the US
The US State Department urged a manual recount of nearly 500,000 ballots to resolve the stalled Nov. 30 election amid protests and fraud claims, reflecting deep political division.
- Earlier this month, the National Electoral Council began a partial recount of 2,800 tally sheets, representing nearly half a million votes, with CNE President Ana Paola Hall writing 'In the presence of national and international observers, the special recount begins'.
- Rixi Moncada, Libre Party candidate, is trailing in third and a more-than-two-week wait for results has heightened tensions across Honduras.
- Police broke up a protest the day before, injuring at least eight people, and a soldier was injured during demonstrations in the capital, Tegucigalpa.
- The result remains uncertified and the National Electoral Council has until December 30 to announce a winner while the US president backed Nasry Asfura.
- Honduras' history of coups, including the 2009 ousting of Manuel Zelaya, raises election stakes, while recent United States actions pardoned former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who faced a 45-year sentence.
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Understanding Honduras’ Post-Election Crisis
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By Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español. Hondurans voted on November 30 to elect a new president, but 19 days after the election, they still don't know who will govern the country after President Xiomara Castro's term ends. The vote count has progressed slowly since the polls closed, a situation the National Electoral Council (CNE) attributed to technical failures in the system used to process the information. Faced with the uncertainty and criticism…
Honduras on the Edge: Xiomara Castro Calls for Popular Mobilization To Confront US-Backed Coup Plot
By Pablo Meriguet – Dec 17, 2025 Two weeks after elections in Honduras, no winner has yet been declared yet. As the irregularities grow, both the Liberal Party and LIBRE have denounced electoral fraud is being committed in favor of the far-right candidate. After a five-day hiatus and more than two weeks since the elections, the Honduran National Electoral Council (CNE) has resumed counting votes in an electoral process that has been widely quest…
Tegucigalpa. In a cellar the size of two basketball courts, hundreds of people manually review on Friday the votes that will decide the winner of the presidential elections in Honduras, which are developed as a thriller novel.With latex gloves, election officials and party delegates review each vote from Friday as if it were a forensic job, following the November 30 elections. Their work will determine if the next president will be the conservat…
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