The Free Party calls for the cancellation of the presidential vote due to the “catastrophe” of the vote count

The ruling party Libertad y Refoundación (Free, left) asked the National Electoral Council (CNE) this Saturday the nullity of the presidential vote general elections of November 30 in Honduras, arguing a “disaster” in the system for transmitting preliminary electoral results (TREP).

“An action for administrative cancellation of the control carried out by the 19,167 Vote Reception Commissions (JRV) at the level of the presidential elections is presented, taking into account the disaster of the system for transmitting preliminary electoral results (TREP)”, indicates the document presented by lawyer Edeson Javier Argueta, legal representative of Libre.

As part of the CNE examination, who has been paralyzed since Fridaythe Libre presidential candidate, Rixi Moncada, appears in third position, with 543,675 votes (19.30%), with the 88.02% of minutes scrutinized.

In his letter, Argueta also requests from the electoral body the administrative cancellation of the elections corresponding to the persons appointed by the president (vice presidents) and to the deputies of the Central American Parliament, stressing that The counting of votes “alters the popular will, violates electoral law, resolutions, regulations and electoral procedures.

The lawyer declared that this control “violates all the rules of transparency and fairness of the electoral process, puts the legality of the results in precarious conditions, affects the very bases of democracy and profoundly violates the right to vote” of citizens and thousands of candidates.

Argueta asks the electorate to admit the action for annulment, to schedule a hearing within three days of notification of its admission and to admit the evidence provided.

Furthermore, he requests that if the appeal is declared admissible, order to “resume the presidential election” in all polling stations within ten days to the resolution.

The legal representative of Libre, whose general coordinator is former President Manuel Zelaya, husband and main advisor to Honduran President Xiomara Castro, affirmed his willingness to comply with all legal requirements to correct possible procedural defects and demanded that the electoral authority make a decision in accordance with the law.

Miroslava Cerpas, a member of the Intervention Council of the National Emergency 911 System, said on Friday on her social networks that Libre would not ask for votes in favor of a candidate, but rather the cancellation of the electoral process.

According to Cerpas, the biometric system used “was only used for decoration”, the votes carried in suitcases lack “credibility” and Libre has audio of hundreds of citizens who were allegedly “threatened or coerced” by groups linked to organized crime.

According to the CNE’s preliminary count, Nasry Asfura, candidate of the conservative National Party and supported by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, leads the count with 1,132,321 votes (40.19%), followed by Salvador Nasralla, of the also conservative Liberal Party, with 1,112,570 (39.49%).