Honduras president alleges 'electoral coup' under way amid Trump 'interference'
Source: The Guardian
Honduras’s president, Xiomara Castro, has alleged that an “electoral coup” is under way in the country’s presidential election, which she says has been marked by “interference from the president of the United States, Donald Trump”.
The leftist president also said that “the Honduran people must never accept elections marked by interference, manipulation and blackmail … Sovereignty is not negotiable, democracy is not surrendered.”
Since Hondurans went to the polls on 30 November, the vote count has dragged on, with repeated interruptions and outages on the electoral council’s website.
Two rightwing candidates have been neck and neck ever since and, with 99.4% of tally sheets counted in the preliminary results, Nasry “Tito” Asfura is ahead with 40.52%, followed closely by Salvador Nasralla on 39.48% – a margin of only 42,000 votes.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/09/honduras-president-alleges-electoral-coup-under-way-amid-trump-interference
Some describe Nasralla as centrist, rather than right wing. Asfura is the one Trump backs, anyway.
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ETA Nasrallah was actually a breakaway candidate and former VP from the ruling party. He essentially split the LIBRE vote, and having two candiates that appealed to the same broad coalition paved the way for the other guy to win...
If anything I would blame selfish ego for the right wing victory. Less Trump and others.