The Liberal Party’s presidential candidate, Salvador Nasrallacalled for an end to what he described as “…” this Saturday in San Antonio de Flores, in eastern Honduras a theft of votes in the National Electoral Council (CNE) and complained about irregularities registered after the November 30 general elections.
“Remember that there are thieves here left and right. They should stop stealing my votes in the National Electoral Council because no one wants them because they are corrupt“, emphasized the candidate for the presidency of Honduras, referring both to the National Party, whose candidacy is led by Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura, and to the ruling party Libertad y Refoundación (Libre) led by Rixi Moncada.
Nasralla toured San Antonio de Flores, a municipality near the border with Nicaragua, accompanied by a caravan and dressed in red as a representative of the Liberal Party. In this city, more than five thousand people are eligible to vote this Sunday. “The elections must not be annulled, someone must be appointed to count the votes already cast, however long it may take.“, he added in his speech.
The residents of San Antonio de Flores, a municipality in the south of the department of El Paraíso, will go to the polls again on December 7, 2025 to elect the candidates for the presidency of Honduras, the local mayor and the deputies of the National Congress.
The CNE decided to postpone the parliamentary elections in this city after failing to install the elections 17 voting committees (JRV) planned. According to the complaints of the mayor and liberal candidate Pedro Cáceres, the previous election day was marked by irregularities related to the trading of mandates of members of the host bodies.
San Antonio de Flores has a voter registry of 4,996 voters distributed across the 17 JRVs. Although the number is modest, The weight of these voices could be crucial in the definition of the presidential race at the national level in Honduras.
With 88.02% of the vote, according to the preliminary official results, Nasralla is in second place with 1,112,570 votes (39.49%), just behind Nasry Asfura, who leads with 1,132,321 votes (40.19%). In third place, the official candidate Rixi Moncada from the Libre party received 543,675 votes (19.30%).
The President of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras, Ana Paola Hall, indicated that the collapse of the electoral counting system was due to “technical problems outside the plenary session” and was “external to our technical team and specific to the excellent company.”
Hall emphasized to reporters: “I would like to make it clear that this CNE has the firm intention that dissemination is continuous“.
For her part, adviser Cossette López-Osorio assured that, despite the incident, “corrective measures have been taken to ensure a quick, safe, reliable and transparent completion of the general audit. That is, of the presidential election campaign and also of the other selective levels.”
Cossette Lopez-Osrio He stressed that “unfortunately, the preconceived draft with the National Electoral Council was not possible due to technical problems that went beyond the will of those who came before him.” He stressed that the organization “continues to work vigorously while others look for ammunition to dismantle the process and its legitimacy.”
The reference to those “looking for ammunition” referred to the ruling Freedom and Refoundation Party (Freedom, left), whose representatives called this Saturday for the annulment of the elections at the presidential formula level.
It is worth mentioning that the highest electoral authority of Honduras this Saturday a Extension of the deadlines for lifting the administrative suspension and for requesting a special recount of votes in the elections.
According to the CNE statement, the deadline for filing administrative annulment actions will be extended by two and a half days to 12:00 p.m. (local time) on Monday, December 8. For requests for reviews and special recounts, the deadline is extended by five days and ends on Monday, December 15 at midnight (local time).
This adjustment was made while counting had been paralyzed since Friday and the official results website had been disabled for more than 18 hours. According to CNE, the main reason for the extension is the Accumulation of technical and logistical problems that have affected the electoral process. The Provisional Election Results Transmission System (TREP) has suffered repeated failures, leading to distrust among both parties and citizens in general.
(With information from EFE)
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