Salvador Nasralla insists that his party is winning the presidential elections in Honduras

Tegucigalpa.- The presidential candidate of the conservative Liberal Party, Salvador Nasralla, insisted this Friday that the general elections in Honduras of last November 30th are being won by his formation, according to his internal count, something that will reverse the current official count that gives a slight advantage to his opponent Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura, of the National Party, and for which the American president, Donald Trump, asked for the vote.

"At this moment, the Liberal Party is winning," Nasralla said in a statement he gave at the headquarters of the Executive Central Council of the formation, in Tegucigalpa, reiterating that there are electoral records that have not entered the computing center of the National Electoral Council (CNE), in which, according to him, he is winning. Those records, some from the department of Cortés, north, of liberal tradition, and from other regions, are going to reverse the results against Asfura, he added, a count that this last one leads for now by almost 20,000 votes. According to the CNE's preliminary official results, with 88.02% of the ballots counted, Asfura continued to lead with 1,132,321 votes (40.19%), while Nasralla had 1,112,570 (39.49%), a trend that has been maintained since Thursday.

Preliminary results favor Asfura

Nasralla reiterated that his opponent has taken the lead because "he had only submitted records from the departments where the National Party wins, which are Lempira, Intibucá and La Paz", in the west of the country, but with the new records that will be incorporated, some of which "have inconsistencies", he will surpass Asfura by a wide majority.

The liberal candidate also demanded from the CNE and the company that counts the votes, "celerity and solution in this."

"It is not possible for them to keep the Honduran people in suspense, the Honduran people deserve respect and we need speed, we request that, respectfully, obviously to the CNE," he emphasized.

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Nasralla stated that about 26,994 votes that belonged to the Liberal Party were attributed to the National Party, without specifying details about it.

Trump's Support

He added that "the tweet that came from the United States (from Donald Trump supporting Asfura, last week), influenced a little so that some nationalists who were going to vote for us" did so for the National Party, "but not so much". Among other things, he said that "there are people who lent themselves to alter records in San Pedro Sula (the second most important city in Honduras), but even so, we won the Presidency of the Republic." The CNE, which is made up of three councilors representing the National, Liberal and Libre parties, also registers today that of the 16,858 scrutinized records, at least 14,451 are "correct", while 2,407 present "inconsistencies", which means that it will involve a vote-by-vote recount.

The CNE's data center is pending to enter 2,571 records, out of a total of 19,152.