The Freedom and Refoundation Party (Free, left) in power “does not recognize” the legislative elections on November 30 in Honduras due to alleged “interference and coercion” by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and called for mobilizations, his presidential candidate, Rixi Moncada, said on Sunday.
“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 said during a press appearance at the ruling party’s headquarters.
The Free candidate declared that Trump’s interference ‘alters popular sovereignty’ and denounced that the system for transmitting electoral results was “manipulated in its source code”.
“Without using the three keys of the security system, behind the backs of the technicians responsible, it was adulterated and intercepted softwareviolating electoral law and security protocols,” he denounced.
Moncada assured that the violation was “confirmed” in the disclosure and processing modules of the reports, and detailed the alleged irregularities: “5,000 minutes in zero, inconsistencies in 95.17% of the reports transmitted in relation to the biometric system, 4,659 minutes without biometric support and constant crashes of the disclosure page.”
He added that the results publication pages “continue to be falsified and not updated for three consecutive days” and he alerted to “possible direct connections” of the National Opposition Party to the transmission system of the National Electoral Council (CNE) for “manipulation of results”.
Cancellation of elections and mobilizations
According to the preliminary election count, paralyzed since Friday with 88.02% of minutes scrutinizedcandidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura, of the conservative National Party, who received the support of US President Donald Trump, accumulated 1,132,321 votes (40.19%), while Salvador Nasralla, candidate of the Liberal Party, obtained 1,112,570 votes (39.49%).
The official candidate was relegated to a distant third placewith 543,675 votes (19.30%), far from their polls which gave an advantage over the two conservative candidates.
In a statement read at the end of a meeting called by its general coordinator, former President Manuel Zelaya, Libre asked its activists to “denounce foreign interference” by Trump and “the crime of treason by supplanting and falsification of popular sovereignty” before the United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Libre called for “the total cancellation of the elections” and the opening of an investigation into the “acts of electoral terrorism committed through the transmission system”. He also called on his activists for “mobilizations” and an “extraordinary assembly of national dignity” on December 13.
He also condemned Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced in 2024 to 45 years in prison for drug and arms trafficking, demanding that tax demands be presented and “his international capture” ordered.
Hernández was extradited to the United States in April 2022, after being arrested in February of the same year at his residence in Tegucigalpa, shortly after completing his second term and handing over power to Xiomara Castro, wife of Manuel Zelaya.
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