Overview
- As of Thursday evening, the CNE’s provisional results with about 84.9% of actas processed show Nasry Asfura at roughly 40.1% and Salvador Nasralla near 39.7%, a lead of about 11,000 votes.
- The tabulation has suffered multiple stoppages and slowdowns tied to the vendor-run results platform, which CNE counselors criticized for unscheduled maintenance.
- Nasralla alleged a “change of data” during an overnight screen outage and asked for an investigation of ASD, the company managing the preliminary feed; the claim remains unproven.
- The CNE and EU/OAS observer missions called for calm, stressing that physical actas are the verifiable record and that the authority has up to 30 days to certify the final outcome.
- Security was reinforced around the CNE’s projection site in Tegucigalpa as businesses boarded storefronts, while one municipality, San Antonio de Flores, is set to rerun its vote on Sunday; Trump’s support for Asfura and the recent pardon of ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández frame the political backdrop.