Overview
- Asfura was credited with 40.27% to Salvador Nasralla’s 39.53%, a margin of roughly 28,000 votes with 97.86% of tally protocols processed.
- The declaration was delivered by Ana Paola Hall and Cossette López, while the third councilor refused to recognize it, setting up potential court challenges.
- About 15% of tally sheets underwent special hand counts following technical outages and inconsistencies that stalled the digital reporting.
- Nasralla and LIBRE leaders rejected the result as fraudulent, with Congress president Luis Redondo calling it an “electoral coup.”
- The United States congratulated Asfura and urged respect for the confirmed results, as Trump’s endorsement and his pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández fueled claims of U.S. interference.