Honduras: Trump interferes, and the ruling rejects results, causing electoral instability.
From the AFE news agency, a week after the presidential election in Honduras, the suspension of the official vote count and allegations of security flaws in the system for transmitting the results have left the Central American country in a state of uncertainty.
The ruling party “Libre” (Libre/left-wing) has refused to recognize the results and has called for protests and a complete annulment of the election.
“Rixi Moncada,” the presidential candidate of the ruling party, stressed in a press conference at the party’s office, “Libre (the name of the party) does not recognize the elections held under the interference and coercion of US President Donald Trump and his allied oligarchs, who have attacked the Honduran people with a continuous electoral coup after sending a million messages through various platforms and threatening that if people vote for Rixi, they will not receive remittances in December (Azer-D).
He protested that the system for transmitting election results had been “manipulated in source code,” and asserted that Trump’s interference was “undermining popular sovereignty.”
Moncada added that the results publication pages had been “manipulated and had not been updated for three consecutive days.” He also warned of “possible direct communications” from the opposition National Party to the National Electoral Council (CNE) transmission system to “manipulate the results.”
In a statement read at the end of the session by former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who coordinated the meeting, Liberé ordered its members to denounce Trump’s “foreign interference” and “the crime of treason against the nation for substituting and distorting popular sovereignty” before the United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
The Honduran ruling party called for “the complete annulment of the elections” and an investigation into “acts of electoral terrorism committed through the transmission system.”
Liberé also condemned Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison in 2024 for drug trafficking and weapons-related crimes, and called for an indictment and international arrest warrant against him.
The US president announced on November 30, ahead of the Honduran presidential election, that he was pardoning Hernández, who, according to Trump, “has been treated very harshly and very unfairly.”
The former president of the Central American country was extradited to the United States in April 2022; he was accused of receiving millions of dollars from drug traffickers, including Mexican drug lord El Chapo, to finance his election campaign in exchange for facilitating the entry of more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States. Hernández was sentenced in March 2024 to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking, illegal possession of firearms, and association with El Chapo.