On Tuesday, Salvador Nasrallah, a conservative from the Liberal Party, managed to gain an advantage More than 10,000 votes for his competitor Nasri “Tito” Asfoura, from the National Party, which enjoys the support of Donald Trump, after the resumption of vote counting … Preliminary election results in Honduras.
With 70% calculation Nasrallah received 893,718 votes (40.16%) vs. Asfoura, who got 883,639 Votes (39.70%), which represents a difference of just over 10,000 votes in favor of the presidential candidate of the National Party.
Official candidate Rexy Moncada of the leftist Libre party remains far behind with 424,498 votes (19.07%), after stating the previous day that she did not yet consider the election a “loser” and It denounced the alleged manipulation of the preliminary results.
Until the vote count was reactivated this afternoon, Asfoura was leading the preliminary results since election night, with a difference of only 500 votes from Nasrallah, which showed a very close technical tie between the presidential candidates.
Now, abandoning the Liberal Party has a greater advantage over its opponent, which enjoys popular support from the US President, who, a few days before the November 30 elections, asked voters to vote for Asfoura, describing him as “a true friend of freedom in Honduras.”
These results, which are still preliminary in light of the absence of 100 percent of the audited records, appear to put an end to the state of uncertainty that prevailed in Honduras during the past 24 hours, after some technical malfunctions in the service for publishing the preliminary results.
Nasrallah indicated on Tuesday afternoon that the difference in votes would increase in the coming hours, and he expected that the National Electoral Council would announce him on Wednesday as “president-elect” of Honduras.
Today marks Hernandez’s release
Hondurans woke up this Tuesday, without a clear winner in the elections, to the news that former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022) had been released in the United States thanks to a pardon from Trump just one year after he was sentenced to more than four decades in prison for drug trafficking.
“He was president, and drugs were being sold in his country. Since he became president, they have persecuted him. It was a terrible witch hunt by (Joe) Biden, and a lot of people in Honduras asked me to do it, and I did it. “I feel very good about that,” Trump announced at a White House press conference.
The former Honduran president is still missing, and it is not known whether he will return to Honduras, as he is still facing investigations and his pardon has sparked controversy in the government.
Specifically, Honduran Parliament Speaker Luis Redondo, from the ruling Libre party, considered that this pardon sends a “devastating message” to justice workers and contradicts the international battle against drug trafficking.
The former president’s wife, Ana Garcia, was moved, stressing that Hernandez “was a free man again” and thanked the American president for his efforts. “A day they will never forget”.
On Sunday, more than 6.5 million Hondurans have the right to elect the president who will succeed Xiomara Castro, who will end his term on January 27, 2026, three presidential appointees (vice presidents), 128 deputies in the local parliament, 20 in the Central American Parliament and 298 municipal corporations.