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Right-wing Honduras presidential rivals locked in 'technical tie' after preliminary count
Two right-wing candidates vying to become president of Honduras were locked in a "technical tie" after a preliminary count of votes cast in a weekend ballot, the country's electoral body said Monday.
Nasry Asfura, a businessman backed by US President Donald Trump, led rival Salvador Nasralla, a TV host, by just 515 votes, making it a "technical tie", National Electoral Council (CNE) head Ana Paola Hall said on X after a partial digital tally.
She said the CNE will now begin a manual count in a vote that left the ruling left-leaning party out in the cold in one of Latin America's most impoverished and violent countries.
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On Friday, Trump also said he will grant a pardon to former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US for drug trafficking and firearms charges. Hernandez, who led Honduras from 2014 to 2022, was also from the National Party.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251201-right-wing-honduras-presidential-rivals-locked-in-technical-tie-after-preliminary-count
Nasry Asfura, a businessman backed by US President Donald Trump, led rival Salvador Nasralla, a TV host, by just 515 votes, making it a "technical tie", National Electoral Council (CNE) head Ana Paola Hall said on X after a partial digital tally.
She said the CNE will now begin a manual count in a vote that left the ruling left-leaning party out in the cold in one of Latin America's most impoverished and violent countries.
...
On Friday, Trump also said he will grant a pardon to former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US for drug trafficking and firearms charges. Hernandez, who led Honduras from 2014 to 2022, was also from the National Party.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251201-right-wing-honduras-presidential-rivals-locked-in-technical-tie-after-preliminary-count
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