Manuel Zelaya calls for mobilization in support of the candidates who are asking to annul the elections in Honduras

Tegucigalpa.- The former president of Honduras and general coordinator of the ruling Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre, left), Manuel Zelaya, called on Saturday for the mobilization of the party's membership to support the official candidates who demand the annulment of the general elections of November 30, which he described as "fraudulent processes". "Upon leaving here, we have to go to the streets to support those who are protesting so that all those fraudulent processes are annulled," Zelaya affirmed before supporters during an extraordinary assembly of Libre in the city of Siguatepeque, in central Honduras. Zelaya reiterated his support for the official presidential candidate, Rixi Moncada, as well as for mayoral and local parliament candidates, and assured that "corruption, trusts, or drug trafficking bosses cannot triumph today" while maintaining that "the people will prevail again" in Honduras. You can also read: In addition, he affirmed that the country has a citizenry that has built "almost two decades of awareness and conviction" in "pure resistance and struggle" and that "does not surrender, does not give up, does not sell out and does not betray."

Honduras' ruling party resists accepting election results

In the act, Moncada also intervened, who announced that they will take to the streets in "a short time" due to the alleged fraud, while confirming that they will "never" accept the results. “We will never recognize the elections of the trap, trickery, artifice and deceit of the Honduran people. And we are on the side of our people, of those who voted for us and also on the side of the people who did not vote for us, coerced, threatened, besieged,” said Moncada. Furthermore, the leader of Libre once again took action against the President of the United States, Donald Trump, for having announced a few days before the elections his support for the conservative candidate of the National Party, Nasry 'Tito' Asfura, and for pardoning former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in New York for drug trafficking and weapons. According to Moncada, Trump's decision "changed the election in Honduras, the united imperial mafia, the national mafia to organized crime to drug trafficking not only changed the election, it freed the capo, it freed the convicted drug trafficker and today the people, I am sure, are judging that double standard action."

Awaiting definitive information

According to Zelaya, husband and principal advisor to Honduran President Xiomara Castro, Salvador Nasralla, candidate of the Liberal Party, won the elections in the presidential formula, who is in second place in the preliminary results of the voting, according to the count of the National Electoral Council (CNE). In the Libre assembly, the "evidence" was also presented, which, according to its leaders, would demonstrate that Moncada won the elections, who occupies the third place in the preliminary results, while Moncada described the denounced "fraud" as an "assault" and "ambush by organized imperial and national criminality". When 99.40% of the electoral records have been scrutinized, Asfura leads the results with 1,298,835 votes (40.52%), followed by Nasralla with 1,256,428 votes (39.20%), while the Libre candidate is third with 618,448 marks (19.29%). Hondurans went to the polls to elect a president, three presidential designates (vice presidents), 298 mayors, 128 deputies for the local Parliament and 20 for the Central American Parliament, but they still don't know who the virtual winner of those elections is.