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The conservative Salvador Nasrallaof the Liberal Party, managed this Tuesday to turn around the count and gain an advantage of more than 10,000 votes over his rival Nasri Tito Asfuraof the National Party and which has the support of Donald Trump, after resuming the counting of the preliminary results of the elections in Honduras held last Sunday.
With 74.27% counted, Nasralla accumulates 952,029 votes (40.24%) against Asfura, who obtains 938,052 votes (39.65%), which makes a difference of almost 10,000 votes in favor of the presidential candidate of the National Party.
The official candidate remains at a distance, Rixi Moncadaof the leftist Free Party, with 420,537 votes (19.04%), after the day before he assured that he had not yet considered the elections “lost” and denounced a alleged manipulation of results preliminary.
Nasry Asfura voting at a polling station in Tegucigalpa.
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Until the reactivation of the vote counting on Tuesday afternoon, Asfura led the preliminary results since the election night with only about 500 votes above Nasralla, which showed a very close technical tie between both candidates for the Presidency.
Now the standard-bearer of the Liberal Party takes a greater advantage over his opponent, who has the public support of the American president, who a few days before the November 30 elections asked the electorate to vote for Asfura, describing him as “the true friend of freedom in Honduras”.
These results, still preliminary in the absence of scrutinizing all the minutes, seem to put an end to the uncertainty that reigned in Honduras in the last 24 hours, after some technical failures in the disclosure service of the preliminary results.
Nasralla indicated this Tuesday afternoon that the difference in votes would increase in the coming hours and predicted that on Wednesday the National Electoral Council (CNE) could declare him “elected president” of Honduras.
Hernandez’s release
Hondurans woke up this Tuesday, in addition to without a clear winner in the elections, with the news of the release of the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022). The former president, imprisoned in a US prison, was freed thanks to a pardon from Trump just a year after being sentenced to more than four decades for drug trafficking.
“He was the president, and drugs were sold in his country. And since he was president, they persecuted him. It was a horrible witch hunt by (Joe) Bidenand a lot of people in Honduras asked me to do it, and I did it. “I feel very good about it,” Trump declared at a press conference at the White House.
The former Honduran president remains missing and it is not known if he will return to Honduras, where he still faces investigations and his pardon has raised controversy in the Government.
Specifically, the head of the Honduran Parliament, Luis Redondo, of the ruling Free Party, considered that this forgiveness sends a “devastating message” to Justice and is contradictory in the international fight against drug trafficking.
For her part, the wife of the former president was excited, Ana Garciawhich confirmed that Hernández “was once again a free man” and thanked the US president for “a day that they will never” forget.
On Sunday, more than 6.5 million Hondurans were eligible to elect the president who will succeed Xiomara Castrowho will conclude his term on January 27, 2026, three presidential appointees (vice presidents), 128 deputies to the local Parliament, 20 to the Central American Parliament and 298 municipal corporations.