With checking still open, Conservative candidate Nasri “Tito” Asfoura On Monday, he received 40.6% of the votes, while Salvador Nasrallah narrowly advanced with 38.8%, after the presidential elections in Honduras on Sunday.
The candidate who received the largest number of votes in The first (and only) round. He is declared the winner without having to reach a specific percentage of votes.
Rexy Moncada, of the ruling Libre party, received 19.6%, which represents a mark Severe punishment for the movement founded by former President Manuel Zelaya.
Hondurans do not realize that years Xiomara Castro In power, public and private services improved Poverty rates affecting 6 out of every 10 Hondurans.
Asfoura, from the National Party – which US President Donald Trump asked to vote for – and Nasrallah, from the Liberal Party, topped the initial election count on Monday morning, with a small margin from the first, indicating a possible return of the right to the Central American country, which has been ruled by the left in this recent period.
First preliminary results It took over an hour to post By the three advisors of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in light of technical problems and the expectant look of hundreds of election observers present in the hall.
In a brief and angry message before the first issue was known, Asfoura demanded that the head of the National Electoral Council, Anna Paula Hall, Expedite the preparation of the initial report.
Asfora said: “We ask Ana Paula Hall, I don’t know what you are waiting for, to go out and do your duty. We do not have a country that waits, in the dark, in the dark. Do it, for the sake of democracy. The law says so. Thank you, Honduras. We are here to serve you and we are firm.”
Despite this, general elections were held in Honduras on Sunday Without major accidents, Minor complaints of delays, alleged obstructions to observers before counting, and destruction of ballot boxes, but with a significant influx of voters to polling stations of more than 2.8 million people (out of a total of 6 million enabled), according to preliminary data.
This participation was welcomed by the United States “Closely follow” the electoral process In that country located in Central America.
Honduran elections are marked In the extreme The US President’s surprising support for presidential candidate Asfoura, A politician of Palestinian origin with a short career in public administration.
In addition to asking to vote for the presidential candidate, Trump promised to do so if he wins “There will be a lot of support” for this country A Central American country suffering from poverty and waves of migration of its citizens to the north, considering it “the only true friend of freedom in Honduras.”
With Asfoura, Trump also stated that he sees the possibility of “working together to fight Against the drug communists“And confronting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
This support from Washington, a few days before the elections, came by pardoning former President Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022). He was convicted of drug trafficking In the United States and from the same political formation to which Asfoura belongs.
With all this, Asfoura is ahead in the vote counting process by a small margin Nasrallah is a conservative who, with his “optimism,” maintains hope To reverse the results to put an end to the 16-year absence from the Liberal Party, however Without US support.
After winning the last elections for the current president xiomara castro, From the Liberal Party, Nasrallah held one of the three presidential positions (vice president) until April 2024, when he resigned due to confrontations with the president and her husband, Manuel Zelaya, who also serves as the general coordinator of the political formation.