Although the vote count has not finished, Castro has already obtained 53% of the votes and the opposition leader Nasry Asfura has already accepted the defeat and has congratulated Castro on his victory.
With an advantage that borders on 20%, the leftist Xiomara Castro remains firm in the results of the general elections on Sunday in Honduras, against the official Nasry Asfura, who has accepted the defeat and has congratulated the future president of Honduras for his triumph, appearing at her house.
Castro, leader of Freedom and Refoundation Party (Free, left), leads the election results with 986,902 votes (53,29 %), against 632 709 (34,17 %) of Nasry Asfura, of the ruler PNational Artido, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The electoral body had processed, until 23:00 local hours (05:00 GMT), since Sunday night, 1.9 million votes among the 5.1 million voters qualified for the elections, who have had 68, 27% participation in the polls.
The CNE authorities reiterated today that although the scrutiny is slow, it is safe, and they have asked Hondurans to have “confidence and patience” because the votes are being processed with all the security and transparency possible.
From the day of the voting, the CNE has 30 days to announce the results of the general elections, in which fourteen parties and twelve presidential candidates participated to elect a president, three vice presidents, 298 mayors, 128 deputies to the local Parliament and 20 to the Central American.
If declared president-elect, Xiomara Castro would be the first woman to arrive at the Presidential House, in which he would succeed Juan Orlando Hernández, who on January 27, 2022 will end his second term in power.
Free is breaking with twelve continuous years of the National Party in power, which began with Porfirio Lobo, in January 2010, after winning the November 2009 elections, the same year that the then president, Manuel Zelaya, Xiomara Castro’s husband, was overthrown.
Sunday’s elections were the third in a row in which Xiomara Castro sought the presidency of the country, the last two forming a de facto alliance only for the presidential formula.
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