The outcome of Honduras’ presidential election held Sunday remains too close to call, with preliminary results showing Nasry Asfura of the National Party leading with just over 40 percent of the ballots, followed very closely by Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party. Former Defense Minister Rixi Moncada of the governing Libre party was a distant third with 20 percent of the vote, but her party raised doubts about the early projections and said it would not concede until all the votes were counted.
The controversies over the vote-counting are likely to continue and even expand in the weeks to come, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration now considers the race to be of strategic importance to its agenda.
One thing is clear: Honduran voters were offered a difficult choice yesterday, as all three presidential candidates were tainted by political networks linked to corruption and drug trafficking.
