Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura and Salvador Nasralla are separated by just 500 votes difference. It is not known who will assume the presidency of Honduras in January and the verdict may take longer than necessary. The National Electoral Council (CNE) has suspended the scrutiny when 57% of the electoral roll had been counted. Donald Trump considered that he should intervene again in the elections of the Central American country in favor of Asfura, its candidate. On Monday night he made his displeasure with the situation known through the Truth social network. “Honduras is trying to change the results,” said the president of USA and warned that “there will be consequences” if that alteration takes place.
The Republican magnate also maintained that Hondurans voted “in overwhelming numbers on November 30” and demanded that the electoral process be respected. He also criticized the CNE for stopping “abruptly counting at midnight” Sunday.
“Es “a technical failure, not a decision by the CNE to stop the results”said one of its advisors, Cossette López, but the main authority of the organization, Ana Paola Hall, explained that the closure of the Transmission of Preliminary Electoral Results (TREP) marks the beginning of a more exhaustive phase of the count. “We must remain calm, be patient”he explained in a message on the social network X. “The general scrutiny now continues with the minutes that could not be transmitted normally.” Hall also recalled that the CNE has, according to the law, a period of up to 30 days to publish the final result.
Reaction of the ruling party
In a sort of symmetrical reaction to Trump’s, Rixi Moncadathe official candidate, relegated to third place and far from her polls that gave her an advantage over the two conservative candidates, denounced an “electoral plot” that allowed the adulteration of results with “inflated” minutes“after having eliminated biometric validation in the race. The candidate of the current president, Xiomara Castroa “probative” technical analysis of the maneuver behind the “bipartisanship.” Its technical team claimed to have identified 2,859 minutes without biometric validation, which represents 25.35% of the total.
In this context, the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras, was released in the United States after Trump’s pardon. Hernández was serving a 45-year prison sentence for his activities linked to drug trafficking.
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