REACTION: Next Steps in Honduras’s Close Election
With final results pending, the leftist ruling party appears defeated, and two conservative candidates seem headed for a photo finish.
In Honduras’s single-round presidential election, former Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry “Tito” Asfura holds a narrow lead over television personality and perennial hopeful Salvador Nasrallah, according to preliminary results from the national elections authority, called the CNE. With only 57% of precincts officially tallied two days after the election, the CNE is behind, and there’s no clear indication of when the vote-counting process will lead to an official result. As of Tuesday morning, Asfura and Nasrallah each had about 40% of the vote, while Rixi Moncada—the...
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