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Close fight in Honduras during the recount of the general elections held this Sunday. The presidential candidate Nasry Asfuraof the conservative National Party—whom american president Donald Trump asked to publicly support—heads the first counts, followed by Salvador Nasrallaof the Liberal Party, according to the preliminary results released by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
More than four hours after the closing of the voting centers and 34.25% of the minutes had been counted, Asfura obtained 530,073 votes, while Nasralla obtained 506,316, indicated the CNE councilors on national television. In third place is Rixi Moncadafrom the ruling Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre, left), with 255,972 votes, added the CNE president advisor, Ana Paola Hall.
Hall highlighted “civility” demonstrated in the elections and ordered the Vote Receiving Boards to remain in their centers until completing, in a “transparent manner, the counting and transmission of all the minutes” corresponding to the different elective levels. The schools had to open an hour longer due to the large influx of voters.
Asfura, the son of parents of Palestinian origin, received public support this week from Trump, who, in addition to requesting the vote for the conservative candidate, assured that “there will be a lot of support” for Honduras in case he is the winner. An interventionist tactic that he had already used in Argentina to tip the balance in favor of Javier Milei.
Trump described Asfura as “the only true friend of freedom in Honduras” and stated that he sees the possibility of “working together to fight the narco-communists” and confront the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro.
If his victory is confirmed, Asfura would assume the Executive backed by the National Party, a formation that accumulated wear and tear in the three periods it governed between 2010 and 2022 after being marred by complaints of corruption and alleged links to drug trafficking networksaccording to investigations and journalistic reports.
More than 6.5 million were eligible to elect today the person who will succeed Xiomara Castrowho will conclude his term on January 27, 2026. They also voted for three presidential appointees (vice presidents), 128 deputies to the local Parliament, 20 to the Central American Parliament and 298 municipal corporations.
The scrutiny will continue in the next few hours and the CNE warned that the final results will depend on the complete transmission of the minutes, which Hondurans will be able to follow in the electronic system of the electoral body.