Trump cries foul over ‘technical tie’ in Honduras presidential race

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The latest ballot number has Trump’s favoured right-wing campaigner Nasry Asfura conscionable 515 ballots up of his rival.

Published On 2 Dec 2025

United States President Donald Trump has lashed retired arsenic Honduras announced that it is to behaviour a manual number of votes formed successful the November 30 statesmanlike election.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) called for “patience” connected Tuesday arsenic it launched the count. Earlier, it had announced that a partial integer number had near the 2 frontrunners locked successful a “technical tie”.

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In a tirade connected societal media precocious connected Monday, Trump accused the predetermination officials of “trying to change” the result of the election, and doubled down connected vague threats of retaliation should his favoured campaigner not beryllium declared the victor of a choky race, which has been beset by problems with the results website.

In the latest update, CNE caput Ana Paola Hall said Trump-backed right-wing campaigner Nasry Asfura was starring centrist rival Salvador Nasralla by conscionable 515 votes aft 57 percent of the ballots had been counted.

“Faced with this method tie, we indispensable stay calm, beryllium patient, and hold for the CNE to decorativeness counting,” she said.

“Subsequently, the peculiar counting process volition beryllium carried retired successful bid to finalise the wide count.”

Presidential campaigner Salvador Nasralla of Honduras' Liberal Party speaks during a property league up of the wide predetermination successful Tegucigalpa, Honduras

‘Hell to pay’

Trump, who successful the run-up to the ballot had threatened to chopped disconnected assistance to Honduras if National Party campaigner Asfura were not elected, responded with a station connected his Truth Social level that claimed the CNE had “abruptly stopped counting” the votes.

He insisted that it was “imperative” that the officials decorativeness the number and that “democracy indispensable prevail”.

“Looks similar Honduras is trying to alteration the results of their Presidential Election,” helium wrote. “If they do, determination volition beryllium hellhole to pay!”

Trump made a large interaction successful the run with his vocal endorsement of Asfura, the erstwhile politician of the capital, Tegucigalpa, saying the US could enactment with him to antagonistic cause trafficking.

His statements followed akin interventions successful Argentina’s legislative elections successful October, successful which helium threatened to chopped enactment if President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza did not look victorious.

Milei’s enactment went connected to win with much than 40 percent of the vote.

Despite cheering Asfura’s forecast relation successful helping to combat Trump’s alleged “war connected drugs”, Trump had said connected Friday that helium is acceptable to pardon erstwhile Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

The past president to travel from the National Party successful a state precocious dominated by left-leaning governmental forces, Hernandez is serving a 45-year situation condemnation successful the US for cause trafficking and firearms charges.

Nasralla claims to beryllium successful front

Asfura’s rival Nasralla, a erstwhile TV host, posted connected X that interior projections enactment him up with 44.6 percent of the vote.

“We are not declaring ourselves the winners, conscionable projecting the results that volition beryllium fed into the CNE,” helium said, drafting disapproval from Asfura’s National Party for weighing successful up of the last ballot count.

Whatever the last outcome, the predetermination is simply a wide decision for the country’s ruling left-wing, whose candidate, Rixi Moncada, was trailing good down successful 3rd with 19 percent of the vote.

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