Tegucigalpa, November 26 (EFE). – The presidential candidate of the Freedom and Refoundation Party (free left) ruling Honduras, Rexy Moncada, said today, Wednesday, that they describe her as “a communist to hide the truth,” in response to US President Donald Trump, who described her as “close to communism.”
“They call me a communist to hide the truth: they fear the democratization of the economy, they fear the Tax Fairness Act, and they want money to remain a privilege of the 10 families (the richest in the country) and not a right for the benefit of the people,” Moncada said on the X social network, without mentioning Trump.
He added: “We are going to the elections on November 30 and I endorse my complaint that the transmission of the preliminary results (TREP) to the National Electoral Council on Sunday at 9:00 pm is a trap. I call on the people to protect the minutes of each JRV (Vote Receiving Board). The two-party system has been defeated.”
Today, Trump urged Honduran citizens to support the conservative National Party’s candidate, Nasri Asfora, in the November 30 elections, accusing his rivals of representing “communist progress” and an ally of leaders such as Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro.
In a post on his Truth Social account, the president referred to Asfoura as “the only true friend of freedom in Honduras,” and added that they could “work together to fight the drug communists.”
Trump said that the official candidate, Rexy Moncada, who aspires to succeed current President Xiomara Castro, is “close to communism,” and added that the third candidate, Salvador Nasrallah from the Honduran Liberal Party, also conservative, is part of an attempt to “deceive the people” to divide the votes.
Moncada, Asfoura and Nasrallah are the most likely candidates to win the elections in which five parties are competing.
Asfora responded by thanking Trump for his political support and urging Hondurans to vote for him to be the next president of Honduras.
Asfoura wrote in a message he posted on social media: “Thank you very much for supporting President Donald Trump,” in which he also said that they “will be firm in defending our democracy, our freedom, and the values that make our country great. Honduras, we will be fine!”
For his part, Nasrallah said that if elected in Sunday’s elections, he would be “an ally of freedoms in Latin America” and expressed his regret for the “misinformation” spread by his political rivals, which prompted Donald Trump to announce his support for Asfoura.
In addition, he expressed his “greatest respect and consideration” for the US President, whom he described as “a natural ally of our beloved Honduras,” and expressed his regret for “the malicious disinformation spewed by his political opponents, which they brought to the ears of President Trump’s advisors, knowing that they are losing.”
Moncada, Asfora and Nasrallah are seeking to succeed Xiomara Castro on January 27, 2026, at the end of her fourth year in power. Evie