Former President Zelaya says Nasralla won Honduras elections ‘minute by minute’

MADRID, December 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The former president of Honduras and coordinator of the government’s Freedom and Refoundation Party (LIBRE), Manuel Zelaya, declared Tuesday that, according to the minutes of his party, the winner of the presidential election is Salvador Nasralla, candidate of the Liberal Party (PL) who denounced “fraud” in the November 30 elections.

“I consulted our candidate, Rixi Moncada, to provide this information because, according to our own national count of presidential minutes, minute by minute, the one who will win the presidency is Salvador Alejandro César Nasralla Salum,” he said on his account of the social network

Zelaya denounced what he called “electoral terrorism” attributed to a “manipulated TREP (Transmission of Preliminary Electoral Results)” electoral system, alleging “the 26 audios that reveal the ongoing electoral coup.”

It should be remembered that the Honduran Attorney General’s Office released a series of audios between the leader of the National Party Congress – which is leading the elections -, Tomás Zambrano, and the advisor of this formation to the Electoral Council (CNE), Cossette López, in which they allegedly revealed a plan to boycott the elections.

“We strongly denounce it: we do not accept it and because of these dirty maneuvers we demand that the elections be null and void (…) No to the electoral coup, no to fraud,” declared Zelaya, after accusing American President Donald Trump of interference in Honduran domestic politics.

The politician recalled the pardon granted by the tenant of the White House to the former president convicted of drug trafficking, Juan Orlando Hernández, “during the period of electoral silence, in the 72 hours preceding the elections.”

In addition, he denounced “the coercion and threats sent in 3.6 million messages to the phones of voters who receive funds from the United States”, estimating that with “the proven extortion of gangs, this brutally changed the voting intention which clearly favored the candidate Rixi Moncada”, who came in third position, with 19.30 percent of support.

A few hours earlier, Zelaya had called for mobilization in Tegucigalpa and Comayaguela, a city near the Honduran capital, denouncing on the same platform that the TREP source code had been violated and that an electoral coup was underway. “We demand prison for the rapists and their beneficiaries,” he added.

In response to this call, the president of the CNE, Ana Paola Hall, “asked the Chief of Joint Staff, in accordance with his constitutional mandate, to urgently protect CNE personnel, electoral materials (…) and the aforementioned facilities.”

According to the latest count published by the electoral body, the candidate of the National Party – supported by Trump -, Nasry Asfura, leads the elections with 40.52 percent of the votes while Nasralla reached 39.48 percent of support. The counting has suffered several interruptions over the past three days.