The candidate of the conservative Liberal Party of Honduras, Salvador Nasralla, he steps on his opponent’s heels Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura, of the National Party, which continues to lead the preliminary results of Sunday’s general election in Honduras, where it is difficult for the population to obtain information about this data due to failures on the website of the National Electoral Council (CNE) due to the saturation of visitors.
Around 2:00 p.m. local time this Monday, the advantage of 24,000 votes that Asfura maintained on Sunday in the first preliminary report of the CNE had been reduced to 515, But even so, neither of them has declared themselves the winner of the elections in Honduras, where there is no second round and whoever has the majority of votes wins.
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However, “with all the information we have from the CNE and our own information, the numbers are different from those that are appearing on the screen today, because “We are much further along with the CNE report,” Asfura assured journalists.
“We have that great support from our minutes, our structure preventing this issue, as we are experiencing it. I want us to be clear here, I am not coming to make any proclamation, I am just coming to say (that) all the Honduran people have patience, that the CNE finishes doing its thing and we are going to realize the reality, there are several departments that we have already accounted for and the differences are quite in favor of the National Party,” he stressed.
Asfura added: “Calm and tranquility is what I come to give, and the numbers will speak for themselves later. We are sure of what we are telling you.”
The CNE indicated in a message from its president advisor, Ana Paola Hall, that “in the face of this technical tie” between Asfura and Nasralla, the population must “remain calm, be patient and wait” for the electoral body to finish “counting records for contingency 1 and 2. And that, subsequently, the special scrutiny process is carried out, in order to complete the general scrutiny.”
“Patience and prudence, the peace with which the process was lived must be maintained until it ends, with the declaration of results,” Hall wrote on the electoral body’s social networks.
The Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla closes the distance with Nasry Asfura and the Electoral Council asks to remain calm. pic.twitter.com/vTIlQmHJ5Y
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Hondurans are having difficulty obtaining information about the official results due to failures in the CNE system, which apparently is due to a saturation of visitors to its official website.
Around midday and with 57% of the scrutiny, according to the latest data that some local media had access to before the CNE website presented access problems, Asfura had 749,022 votes (39.91%), taking a slight advantage over his opponent Nasralla who has 748,507 (39.89%).
Nasralla, who had a press conference, suspended it, without explaining whether he will do so later.
Asfura received, with just a few days left before the vote, the public support of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who called on the Honduran electorate to support him and promised “a lot of support” for Honduras in the event of his victory and the possibility of “working together to fight against the narco-communists.”
