Overview
- Asfura was certified with 40.27% to Salvador Nasralla’s 39.53%, a margin of about 28,000 votes, ahead of a January 27 inauguration.
- The declaration came from two CNE councillors while the third refused to recognize it and filed a complaint, as the Congress president called the move an “electoral coup.”
- A chaotic count forced a special hand review of roughly 15% of tally sheets—about 2,700 to 2,800 protocols—after system outages and reporting stoppages.
- The United States congratulated Asfura and urged respect for the confirmed results, while some international observers reported no evidence of large-scale fraud.
- President Donald Trump endorsed Asfura before the vote and pardoned ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández, intensifying opposition claims of external interference.