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The National Electoral Council of Honduras (CNE) declared this Wednesday Nasy “Tito” Asfura, candidate of the conservative National Party, winner of the presidential election on November 30.
Days before the election, Asfura was endorsed by US President Donald Trump.
In a video message, councilors Ana Paola Hall and Cossette López said that Asfura surpassed his closest rival, Salvador Nasralla, of the Liberal Party, by 0.74% of the vote.
According to the councilors, Asfura had 40.27% of the votes compared to Nasralla’s 39.53%. In third place was the pro-government candidate Rixi Moncada, with 19.19% of the votes.
The counselors defended the decision to issue the declaration although the special scrutiny of some minutes has not yet been completed. They said that, of a total of 19,153 minutes received, 18,820 were disclosed correctly while 333 have inconsistencies. They added that this implies that 98.27% of the minutes can be considered “disclosed and consistent.”
Both Nasralla’s party and the ruling Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre) have warned that they will challenge the process.
On his social networks, Asfura celebrated the declaration of the CNE and assured that he is “prepared to govern.”
“I recognize the great work done by the counselors and the entire team that carried out the elections,” he wrote in X. “Honduras: I am prepared to govern. I will not fail you. God Bless Honduras!”, he added.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio congratulated Asfura and said he looks forward to collaborating with his government.
“The people of Honduras have spoken: Nasry Asfura is the next president of Honduras,” Rubio said on
For his part, Nasralla said that there were irregularities and that the official result of the CNE “does not respond to the will of the majority of the Honduran people,” also questioning the role of the CNE advisors.
Hall, meanwhile, assured that “no one in the CNE ‘elects’ the President of the Republic; it is the people who decide and the CNE simply limits itself to certifying it.”
“I clarify that this certification that contains the declaration of General Elections at the presidential level was on the verge of being a political hostage; but, we have firmly defended and continue to defend that the declaration does not belong to the will of any Councilor, nor of any Political Party, it only responds to the truth of the results that reflect the will of the Honduran people,” said the counselor in X.
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