CIVICUS discusses Honduras’ 30 November presidential election, with no winner yet declared, with members of Expediente Público, the investigative journalism programme of the think tank Expediente Abierto, which focuses on issues of democracy, government transparency and human rights.
With 99.4 per cent of votes counted, Nasry Asfura of the National Party leads with 40.5 per cent, ahead of Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, on 39.2 per cent. The counting system collapsed repeatedly over several days, with ballots from around 3,000 polling stations showing inconsistencies that require a special recount. The Liberal Party and the current ruling party, Libertad y Refundación (Libre), whose candidate came third, have claimed electoral fraud and obstructed the verification process. The National Electoral Council (CNE) hasn’t yet been able to declare a winner as the legal deadline approaches.
