PNN – Initial results of the Honduran presidential election indicate that the candidate supported by the U.S. president is in the lead.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, quoting the Associated Press, initial results of the Honduran presidential election show that two candidates from conservative parties are ahead of the candidate of the ruling party. Vote counting from about 43 percent of polling stations was completed by Monday morning.
The Honduran National Electoral Council announced that Nasry Asfura of the National Party of Honduras is leading with 40.54 percent of the votes in the initial count. Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party has obtained about 38.99 percent of the votes.
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Rixi Moncada, the candidate of the left-wing Social Democratic Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre), is in third place with 19.49 percent of the votes.
This comes while before the counting of votes began, the ruling party of Honduras had published a survey claiming victory in the presidential election.
The left-wing Liberty and Refoundation Party, which is the ruling party in Honduras, published a survey claiming that Moncada, its candidate in the presidential election, was in the lead.
The Honduran general elections were held on Sunday (November 30), and voters elected, in addition to the president and three vice presidents, 128 members of the National Congress, 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), as well as 298 mayors and more than 2,000 members of local councils. According to the law, the presidential election in Honduras is single-round, and the candidate who receives the most votes is considered the winner.
The Honduran presidential election was held while U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened that if the people voted for the leftists, he would impose sanctions on the country.
Trump had supported Asfura, the right-wing candidate in the Honduran presidential election.