Honduras Restarts Presidential Vote Count as Asfura’s Slim Lead Holds

Overview

• After a multi‑day suspension, the National Electoral Council resumed manual counting and public updates, with Asfura at about 40.2% and Nasralla near 39.5% on roughly 88% of tallies, a gap of about 19,000 votes.
• Officials cited transmission failures that left thousands of polling tallies recorded as zero and said a share of ballots flagged for inconsistencies requires review, with no firm deadline previously set.
• Libre declared it does not recognize the vote, demanded a total annulment, and called protests and strikes, while its candidate Rixi Moncada remains in a distant third place.
• President Donald Trump publicly backed Asfura and warned against changing the outcome, and the OAS urged a faster, traceable count to restore confidence.
• A Colombian firm contracted to transmit and publish results has been blamed by some contenders for the outage, and election officials acknowledged technical problems without presenting evidence of software tampering.