Trump-backed Nasry Asfura declared winner of Honduras presidential election
The vote count took weeks, fuelling international concern and doubts about the Latin American country’s fragile electoral system
Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, electoral authorities said on Wednesday, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Central American nation’s fragile electoral system.
Asfura, of the conservative National Party, received 40.27 per cent of the vote in the November 30 election, edging out four-time candidate Salvador Nasralla of the conservative Liberal Party, who finished with 39.53 per cent of the vote.
The former mayor of Honduras’ capital Tegucigalpa won in his second bid for the presidency, after he and Nasralla were neck-and-neck during a weeks-long vote count that fuelled international concern.
On Tuesday night, a number of electoral officials and candidates were already fighting and contesting the results of the election. Meanwhile, followers in Asfura’s campaign headquarters erupted into cheers.