President Trump is making baseless claims of fraud in the Honduran election as he continues to publicly meddle in an incredibly close race between his choice—the conservative Tito Asfura— and liberal Salvador Nasralla.
“Looks like Honduras is trying to change the results of their Presidential Election. If they do, there will be hell to pay!” President Trump said Monday night with zero evidence to back it up. “The National Electoral Commission, the official body charged with counting the Votes, abruptly stopped counting at midnight on November 30th. Their count showed a close race between Tito Asfura and Salvador Nasralla with Asfura holding a narrow lead of 500 votes. Their tally was stopped when only 47 percent of the Vote was counted. It is imperative that the Commission finish counting the Votes. Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans must have their Votes counted. Democracy must prevail!”
In reality, this is a very slim election that will take the National Electoral Council (CNE) an extended period of time to count. Preliminary results on Monday had Asfura ahead of Nasralla by just 515 points.
“Faced with this technical tie, we must remain calm, be patient, and wait for the CNE to finish counting,” said CNE head Ana Paola Hall. “Subsequently, the special counting process will be carried out in order to finalise the general count.”
Trump has already promised to cut off aid to Honduras if Asfura doesn’t win. Now, he is further undermining the country’s electoral sovereignty by trying to lie his way into a favorable result. It’s obvious that Trump has his own agenda for Honduras, especially given his pardon of prolific drug trafficker and former conservative president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison on drug-trafficking and weapons charges. The gameplan is almost identical to Argentina—meddle in elections, promise funding to guarantee your preferred candidate’s victory, and reap the benefits.
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