Monitoring the general elections in Honduras on November 30 It started again this Monday after paralysis due to technical problems since last Friday, with the candidate of the conservative National Party, Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfurasupported by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in charge.
The count was reactivated around 8:15 a.m. local time (3:15 p.m. Spanish Peninsula time), with Asfura in first position with 1,132,429 votes (40.18%), followed by Salvador Nasralla, of the Liberal Party, also conservative, with 1,112,610 votes (39.51%). The official candidate of the Libertad y Refoundación (Free, left) party, Rixi Moncada, remains in third position with 543,756 votes (19.29%), while 88.29% of electoral files were scrutinizedaccording to the website of the National Electoral Council.
The president advisor of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Ana Paola Hall, announced this Sunday that the count is “immediately restarted” elections, interrupted since Friday afternoon, due to “technical problems”, although it was only this Monday that changes began to be noticed on the organization’s website. The lack of updating of control has sparked criticism and calls for speed from political parties, international observers and sectors of civil society.
The Free Party, through its presidential candidate, has already indicated this Sunday that it “does not recognize” the legislative elections. due to the “interference and coercion” of the President of the United States, and therefore called on its bases for various mobilizations of its bases. “Free does not recognize the elections held under the interference and coercion of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the allied oligarchy who attacked the Honduran people with an ongoing electoral coup after sending a million messages through different platforms threatening the people that if they vote for Rixi they will not receive money in December,” Moncada stressed.
The candidates of the national and liberal parties assure that, according to the minutes of the elections available to them, it is they who win them, but none has yet declared himself “president-elect”. Furthermore, they called for calm and patience while awaiting the final results of the CNE.
Since the elections, The CNE has 30 days to announce the final results. These elections have already become the most complex in this Central American country, which returned to democracy in 1980 after nearly two decades of military rule.
On November 30, Hondurans voted to elect a president, three presidential appointees (vice presidents), 298 mayors, 128 deputies for the local Parliament, and 20 for the Central American Parliament. The presidential candidate who wins the elections He will succeed the country’s current president, Xiomara Castro, on January 27, 2026.for a period of four years. Castro is the wife of former President Manuel Zelaya, who is also his main advisor and general coordinator of the Libre, a party founded in 2011 after the June 28, 2009 coup against the former president.
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