“There is an electoral coup underway”

Xiomara Castrooutgoing president of Honduraslaunched a reckless proclamation this Tuesday and did not know the results of the elections in your country. With a construction that was as contradictory as it was novel, the socialist spoke of a “election coup” and ignored the delayed and controversial calculations that With a count of 99%, they give Nasry Asfura an advantageCandidate supported by Donald Trumpabout the liberal Salvador Nasralla.

Putting aside the differences and grievances between these candidates, the truth is that the official candidate, Rixi Moncada, is far from having any chance of winning based on the numbers. But in response, the Honduran president gave a fiery speech in which she said this The elections “are tainted with nullity.”

“Democracy does not exist without justice and people should not accept processes marked by interference and blackmail,” stressed Castro, who said she was speaking as president and “as a woman who emerged from the resistance.”

After his proclamation – which was interpreted by the opposition as a ploy to prevent a handover of command and get involved in the government – Groups of socialist militants and “collectives” —violent street shock forces— They took to the streets and there were attacks on offices of the National Electoral Council. Fear increased in a Honduras without definitions about its future.

Castro thus joined the accusations of manipulation made by the other right-wing candidate, the television presenter Nasralla, whom Asfura outperforms by just over a percentage point, and those of his candidate Rixi Moncada in a distant third place.

Nasralla denounced this Tuesday a “monumental fraud” in Honduras and called for a special audit “minute by minute” due to a series of technical failures and alleged irregularities in the system for transmitting provisional election results (TREP).

“The failure of the system for transmitting the election results, managed by the Colombian company ASD, represents the greatest technical and legal risk observed in the current electoral process. We are not dealing with a minor error, but with vulnerabilities that affected the reliability of the digital counting and led to inconsistencies that would have been impossible in a correctly validated system,” he stressed.

The presidential candidate assured that, according to the electoral body, a technician from the company was in charge of the preliminary transmission of the votes would have had access to “privileged access data”.a fact he described as an “election crime” and explained that the vulnerability “arisen from within” but was not due to an “attack from without.”

He also attributed the appearance of “tables with inflated vote counts, logs with numerical imbalances and inconsistencies” to the disabling of automatic validations and internal control failures, which, as he explained, “They should never have entered the system or passed through automatic filters.”

In his opinion, a system with “active security locks would have rejected these inconsistencies and forced manual review of logs before transmission.”

The latest CKD count, which has remained unchanged since midnight, confirms this Asfura is ahead with 1,298,835 votes (40.52%)ahead of Nasralla, who received a total of 1,256,428 votes (39.48%), with 99.40% of the minutes counted.

The ruling Liberad y Refoundación (Libre) party’s presidential candidate, Rixi Moncada, remains in third place with 618,448 votes (19.29%).

A group of militants from Honduras’ ruling Freedom and Refoundation Party (Freedom, Left) protested this Tuesday in Tegucigalpa against the rejection of the results.

The demonstrators, previously convened by the former president and general coordinator of Libre, Manuel ZelayaThey were stationed in front of the state-run National Institute for Vocational Training (INFOP), where the reception and dispatch center for materials of the National Electoral Council (CNE) is located.

“The groups of the 23 territories of Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela must mobilize immediately for the INFOP. Our candidates Rixi Moncada and @PartidoLibre do not accept the results of the TREP, the failed and fraudulent of the 26 Audios,” said Zelaya, the husband and main advisor of Xiomara Castro, in X.

Zelaya added that Tegucigalpa Mayor Jorge Aldana, who is seeking re-election and attended the protest, “won the elections and is with the protocol in hand, demanding that protocol by protocol be counted and vote by vote.”

“Here we will continue to monitor the votes so that they are all counted publicly,” said Aldana, who also asked electoral authorities for a special review of the municipal formula.

“The TREP (Preliminary Results Transmission System) source code has been violated and an electoral coup is underway. We demand prison for the violators and their beneficiaries,” Zelaya stressed.

The Free Party “does not recognize” the election results due to Trump’s alleged “interference and coercion.”

Minutes after Zelaya’s call, the president of the CNE, Ana Paola Hall, asked the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Roosevelt Hernández, to do so “urgently protect” the electoral body’s staff.the materials and facilities of the INFOP.

“I have asked the Chief of Staff to urgently protect CNE personnel, election materials for the 2025 general elections and the above-mentioned facilities in accordance with his constitutional mandate,” Hall emphasized.