Still No Winner in Honduras Presidential Election as Anxiety Grows

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The presidential election in Honduras remains undecided as anxiety grows and politicians allege fraud.

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00:00Protests in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, as the country awaits the results of a contentious

00:09presidential election. Polls closed over 10 days ago, but still no winner has been declared,

00:16the lengthy vote count raising allegations of fraud and causing anger to spill out onto the

00:22streets. It has been a failure, a failure that we had been warning about for days,

00:28saying there would be fraud, and they did not want to listen. We are no longer willing to put up with

00:33it. We will go out into the streets. Election officials say over 99 percent of ballots have

00:40been counted. Conservative candidate Nazarias Fura has a slim lead, with Liberal Party candidate

00:46Salvador Nazaria trailing by just around 40,000 votes. Both have indicated support for re-establishing

00:53ties with Taiwan. Ruling Party candidate Rishi Moncada is much farther behind.

00:58But multiple sides are calling foul. Nazaria says the vote count has been manipulated,

01:04citing irregularities, while current President Xiomara Castro has called it an electoral coup

01:10and accused U.S. President Donald Trump, who endorsed as Fura, of interference.

01:15The country's electoral body also reportedly experienced technical issues during the counting

01:20process, adding to anxiety. Moncada has said she will not accept the results,

01:25and a congressional panel has said they will not validate them.

01:30By eliminating the use of biometrics at the polling stations, they contaminated their records,

01:36and with that, the preliminary electoral results transmission system, causing fraud in the elections

01:42by allowing political parties to manipulate and inflate their records and votes, which is why the

01:48process lost all credibility, becoming null and void and fraudulent. Election results must be

01:54validated by electoral council members. But if they don't do that by December 30th,

01:59analysts say Congress could intervene. And there's still counting to be done. A special recount has

02:05been scheduled for ballots with inconsistencies, around 15 percent of the total, enough to sway the election.

02:12As the country waits, a general sense of unease is growing.

02:16It is totally worrying, because in other elections, by around 9 or 10 at night, it would be clear who the

02:24next president would be. But now, imagine, it has been like 10 days, and we still don't know who will

02:30be president. So as I said, I have not seen an honest electoral process.

02:35But with no clear end in view, and with politicians fanning the flames with accusations of fraud,

02:42protests like these could happen again in the days to come.

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02:53Hank Xu and Cadence Caranta for Taiwan Plus.

02:54Hank Xu and Cadence Caranta for Taiwan Plus.

02:55Hank Xu and Cadence Caranta for Taiwan Plus.

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02:58Hank Xu and Cadence Caranta for Taiwan Plus.

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