Breaking News: Honduras electoral authority releases preliminary results

The National Electoral Council of Honduras released the first preliminary results of the general elections this Sunday night, showing Nasry Asfura of the National Party leading the presidential race with 36 percent of the vote. Ruling Libre Party candidate Rixi Moncada immediately denounced fraud in the bulletin, warning that the process has been marked by media war, misinformation campaigns, interventionist attempts, and destabilizing actions by the far-right. At 10:30 p.m. Tegucigalpa time, the official report placed conservative candidate Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party behind Asfura. More than six million Hondurans were called to the polls in an election seen as decisive for the country’s political trajectory. Moncada has presented a government plan centered on defending public assets, investing in education and health, maintaining public enterprises to guarantee essential services, and promoting economic democratization so that “wealth goes to everyone,” with support for women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses.

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00:00Breaking news at this hour. In Honduras, the National Electoral Council emitted the first

00:10preliminary results that shows Nasri as footer of the National Party leading the race. Libre

00:17Party, the ruling party of the country, already anticipated fraud in this bulletin from the

00:25National Electoral Council. The Electoral Authorities of the country ruling Libre's presidential

00:31candidate, Rixi Moncada, denounced fraud. Following the preliminary results that shows, as we were

00:37informing, Nasri as footer of the National Party leading the race at this hour, 11.08 p.m.

00:46Tegucigalpa's time. This preliminary report takes place in a context in which, and also

00:53an electoral process that has been marked by media war, by misinformation campaigns, interventionist

01:01attempts, also destabilizing actions by the far right wing of the country. All of the minutes

01:10counted at this hour amounts 6,559 from a total of 19,152. This represents

01:2334.25% of the minutes of the ballots. This shows as well that the Democrat-Christian Party

01:33of Honduras has received so far 2,152 votes. Also, the Innovation and Unity Social Democrat Party

01:44has received over 10,000 votes for Freedom and Refundation. Libre Party, the ruling power of the country,

01:54has so far 255,972 votes. And the Liberal Party of Honduras has at this moment 506,316. And finally,

02:09the leading, so far at this moment, with 5,330,073 votes counted on its favour, the National Party

02:23of Honduras. Fraud, interventionist attempts, destabilizing actions. There has been everything

02:29in an electoral process that has been undermined for several weeks, and this was anticipated

02:40by the ruling party and by the candidate of this powerful force of this nation, by the candidate

02:49Rixi Moncada. This is Rixi Moncada. This is the information so far. This is the preliminary results

02:55at this hour. The final, the final informations, let's recall that Libre is a party of, is at this moment

03:09being led by the candidate Rixi Moncada. And she has been, in this context, former President Manuel Zelaya

03:22has taken, has started to react and has taken to his social platforms to denounce the following. And I quote,

03:31as you can see on your screens, Libre is a party of ideals tested in the streets and with great social

03:39and democratic results during Xiomara Castro's presidency. Our demand to remain fast in our struggle

03:46until we obtain the final count with 100% of the presidential, mayoral and congressional ballots

03:55of our candidate Rixi Moncada is the moral, patriotic and truthful court of action, adhering to the mandate

04:03of the people at the ballot box, a mandate we cannot ignore. This is the message just published by former

04:12President Manuel Zelaya. This is the information we have been receiving from Honduras as this election day

04:21on falls in the country with this unfortunately expected situation already being warned by the candidate

04:32of the ruling party of the Libre party by Rixi Moncada, who was also former defense minister of the nation.

04:42Let's recall that polls and also the results, these preliminary results are showing the national party

04:51candidate Nasri Asfura as leading as the leader so far of this electoral race. And he is a wealthy

05:02construction tycoon, a former major of Tegucigalpa. He has been also involved in several corruption scandals.

05:11He is the candidate of Honduras traditional right wing establishment. Notably as well, he has been publicly

05:19endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump. Let's recall that this has been a race that has been under constant

05:26foreign interference, especially by the U.S. in a context in which the Honduran people,

05:33for the Honduran people, it is not news, this constant, successive and this constant interference by the

05:41successive U.S. administrations in the democracy of this country. Let's give you some informations

05:48regarding this aspect. Honduras have been experiencing U.S. interference since

05:55early 20th century. In that moment of history, the U.S. support for banana companies was crucial

06:06throughout the 1900s. Companies like United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit had enormous influence in

06:13Honduras. And in this context, the U.S. frequently intervened diplomatically and militarily to protect

06:20corporate interests. Now the history is repeating itself. Also during the Cold War era in the 1980s,

06:28Honduras became a central U.S. military ally. In Central America, the U.S. used Honduras as a staging

06:38ground for the contra-revel fighting. And also the CIA as well-funded, trained and armed in effectives

06:49in the Honduran territory and also established a heavily-funded military bases. And also it was very

06:58known its role, the role of the CIA and the U.S. governments directly in the 2009 coup d'etat against

07:07former President Manuel Zelaya, one of the first ones that have been asking the media to announce and to

07:17condemn this ongoing fraud that is taking, that is unfolding at this hour in Honduras. Let's recall that

07:27this is a situation that has been very well known for Hondurans and this was proven as well in the 2009

07:34coup d'etat for its role, for the role of the U.S. in this scenario. The coup d'etat of former President

07:41Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009, that is among the most cited contemporary examples. The U.S. did not

07:52formally recognize it as a military coup which would have required cutting aid under U.S. law. Hillary Clinton

08:01later wrote as well, also publicly recognizing the role in this in this scenario. And then also

08:09Hillary Clinton later wrote and also removed from her memoir later on that the U.S. worked to ensure

08:17Zelaya did not return to office. The U.S. pushed for elections following that coup d'etat in 2009

08:24and that was also organized by the de facto government which much of Latin America refused

08:34to recognize. Also, the candidate for the Libre for the Libre party, Rixi Moncada, has taken as well,

08:43taken to her social media to denounce these these results. She posted the following,

08:50I am grateful to the Libre party and our people who overwhelmingly voted for my proposal for economic

08:57and democratic reform. I urge you to remain steadfast in your struggle until we obtain the final results,

09:06with 100 percent of the presidential, mayoral and congressional ballots counted. Tomorrow at a press

09:14conference I will announce my political position regarding the presidential results published by

09:21the National Electoral Council. This is the stance, this is the denunciation and the call

09:30being given by the Libre candidate, Rixi Moncada, on social media X. This is everything that is happening

09:40at this moment in Honduras following a few moments after the release of the first preliminary results

09:48being released by the National Electoral Council that shows the candidate Nasri Asfura of the National

09:56Party as leading this race in this electoral process that has been marked by misinformation campaigns,

10:05by U.S. interventionist actions as well, by destabilizing actions from the far right, being supported as well

10:11by the U.S. in a context that it remains to be seen when all the ballots are counted, how this is going to be

10:19unfolding and we're going to be bringing you all the latest information in this matter. This is all for the

10:25moment. Stay tuned with Telesur English.

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