Doubts grow due to delays in counting and two candidates are declared winners when there is a difference of only 500 votes

As the hours passed and the National Electoral Council (CNE) began. Honduras The total number of presidential elections on Sunday has not yet been revealed, and is increasing Uncertainty Among voters.

Two days after the election, still There was no clear result in the presidential electionsA delay in the electoral entity’s mechanism for recording voting minutes.

The latest cut of results has been released Monday at noon Subsequently, the head of the National Electoral Commission, Ana Paula Hall, announced the closure of the Transmission of Preliminary Electoral Results (TREP) system. The institution has 30 day period To calculate the final data.

The latest result published by the National Electoral Council showed that, after counting 57.03% of the votes, the two opposition candidates, governors Nasri Asfoura and Salvador Nasrallah, won their votes. They maintained a technical draw.

Asfoura came from the Liberal Party 749,022 votes (39.91%)which represents a slight advantage to 515 votes About Nasrallah, from the Liberal Party, what happened 748,507 votes (39.89%).

In third place came the official candidate of the leftist Libertad y Refundación (Libre) party, Rexy Moncada, who received 359,584 votes, representing only 19.16%.

The candidates at the head of the vote demanded separately that the Provisional Electoral Council Don’t keep holding back on results.

Nasrallah said: “There are 47 percent (of minutes) that were not entered.” Technical problem Delay in updating.

However, he said that he had the record of that Show their victory About the national candidate.

For his part, Asfoura also confirmed You have the minutes to show him as a winnerBut he called on his followers to wait.

“Let’s be calm, the data will come out…and when it comes out it will be the same as we manage it,” said Asfoura, known as Papi a la Orden.

The dropper count also began To arouse doubt and relieve fear That generates ghosts of the past.

During the 2017 general elections, Nasrallah ran for president and lost to the National Party candidate, Juan Orlando Hernández, in a vote It was marked by allegations of fraud.

After the first results of the vote appeared, which showed Nasrallah’s lead, the country’s electricity service was cut off, and after that incident, Hernandez appeared at the forefront of voters and ended up declaring victory.

Added to the uncertainty in the country was New comment from US President Donald Trump: “It seems that Honduras is trying to change the results of their presidential election. If they do that there will be a scandal!” he wrote on his Truth Social account.

“It is necessary for the commission to finish counting the votes. Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans must have their votes counted. Democracy must prevail!He added.

However, the CNE authorities made it clear that all records would be disclosed and then compared with the records held by the disputing parties.

As the released results showed, 57.03%, correspond only to minutes that were scanned and sent online to the CNE collection center.

What remains to be counted corresponds to scanned minutes that could not have been sent to the CNE or that certainly could not have been scanned.

All these records must reach the Center for Electoral Logistics (CLE), where a special audit will be conducted and then a general audit.

The National Election Commission has a period of 30 days to sort, address and correct discrepancies in all electoral registers, before submitting the final declaration of the election.

“We must remain calm, be patient and wait until the CNE finishes taking the record,” Hall told X.

For her part, National Election Center advisor, Cosette Lopez, explained that this organization will receive the data, as well as all the political parties that participated in the elections.

“It must be made clear that we are making important changes to the law, and sometimes political parties add records with contradictions, while we do not and we have to correct all of that before presenting an amount that we can strongly inform the population about,” Lopez expressed.

Regarding the electoral process in general, the OAS Election Observation Mission congratulated the National Electoral Commission and the Population on the smooth conduct of the elections.

Among other recommendations, it asked Honduras to “strengthen the infrastructure for disseminating results with efficient resources, to avoid denial of services, interruptions and site downtime, and to ensure service availability.”