The television presenter Salvador Nasralla took a slight advantage over businessman Nasry Asfura, candidate supported by Donald Trump, when the vote counting of the presidential elections in Honduras resumed this Tuesday.
The scrutiny was reactivated on Tuesday afternoon, after being interrupted since early Monday morning. Until then, Nasralla, of the Liberal Party (PL), was in second place, although in a technical tie with Asfura, of the conservative National Party (PN).
With the resumption of the electoral results in the CNE, Nasralla surpasses Asfura by more than 4,000 votes, when 11,673 of 19,152 minutes have already been transmitted, that is, 60.95%.
Official data from the CNE results portal reveal that, at the beginning of the process of collation and special review of minutes, the difference between both contenders exceeded 20,000 votes. However, as the validation and entry of more documents progressed, the gap was drastically reduced.
The last result released by the CNE showed that, with 57.03% of the votes counted, two opposition candidates, the conservatives Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla, maintained a technical tie.
Nasry Asfura has a slight lead of only 500 votes.
Asfura, from the National Party, presented 749,022 votes (39.91%), which represents a slight advantage of 515 votes over Nasralla, from the Liberal Party, who obtained 748,507 votes (39.89%).
The candidate appeared in third place official of the left-wing party Libertad y Refoundación (Libre), Rixi Moncadawho obtained 359,584 votes, which represents only 19.16%.
The candidates at the head of the vote separately demanded that the CNE not continue to withhold the results. “There are 47 percent (of the minutes) that have not been entered,” said Nasralla, who attributed the delay in updating to a technical problem. However, he said that he had in his possession the minutes that demonstrate his victory over the nationalist candidate.
For his part, Asfura also claimed to have the records that show him as the winner, but he called on his followers to wait.
“Let’s be calm, the data is going to come out… and when it comes out it will be the same as what we manage,” said Asfura, known as Papi a la Orden.