PNN – The counting of 97% of the electoral votes indicates a likely victory for the candidate supported by the US President in Honduras.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Reuters, the process of announcing the results of the November 30 presidential election in Honduras has resumed after a three-day hiatus, and the latest data shows that Nasser Asfora, the right-wing candidate of the National Party and supported by US President Donald Trump, is still leading by a small margin.
The Honduran National Electoral Council, while announcing that 97% of the votes had been counted, declared Asfora the leader of the election with 40% of the votes. He is ahead of his closest rival by about 42,100 votes.
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Salvador Nasrallah, a TV host and moderate candidate who has run for president three times, came in second with 39 percent of the vote. The two candidates had traded places several times in recent days, but Asfora’s lead widened slightly on Monday evening.
Rixi Moncada, the candidate of the ruling Libere party and a former minister in the country’s leftist government, is in third place with 19 percent of the vote.
Honduran elections are single-round, and the person who receives the most votes becomes president.
The vote count process was halted on Friday with only 88 percent of the votes counted. The National Election Council has announced that about 16 percent of the data in the voting center minutes is inconsistent and needs to be reviewed.
These developments are occurring at a time when the Honduran prosecutor’s office has issued an international arrest warrant for former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was recently released from a US prison following Trump’s pardon, an issue that has intensified tensions in the country’s electoral climate.