president of the United States, Donald TrumpHe denounced on Monday the alleged attempt to “change the results” of Sunday’s presidential election in Honduras, in which the vote-counting process was paralyzed by a technical malfunction, according to the National Electoral Council ( … CNE) from Honduras.
According to the North American president, this alleged fraud will have a high cost, and he has urged the National Electoral Council of Honduras to finish counting the votes: “It appears that Honduras is trying to change the results of its presidential elections. If it does so, a heavy price will have to be paid,” he announced on his account on the “Social Truth” network.
The President considers it necessary for the National Electoral Commission to finish counting the votes, which amount to 57.03% of the tallies, while the far-right candidate, Nasri AsfouraAnd the governor, Salvador Nasrallahin a technical tie, with each receiving about 39.9% of the votes.
However, his message contradicts those published by the State Department’s Western Hemisphere Bureau and repeated by the US Embassy in Tegucigalpa, in which he called for “patience while awaiting the official results.” He stressed that “the results are preliminary and the process must continue until it is completed.”
CNE Consultant, Cosette Lopez Osorio He said, on Monday, in his interview with CNN, that “stopping the transmission of results is not a direct decision of the National Electoral Council, but rather is due to a failure in the system that they are working to solve with the responsible company, but it will be restored until Tuesday morning.”
He said: “There was no decision on this matter. It is not the explicit will of the National Council. It is literally a technical malfunction in the publishing platform, and we are working to solve it.”