Asfura Holds Slim Lead as Honduras Restarts Count, Sets Thousands of Tally Sheets for Special Review

Overview

• With 99.4% of tally sheets processed, Nasry Asfura has about 40.52% to Salvador Nasralla’s 39.20%, a lead of just over 40,000 votes in Honduras’ single-round race.
• The electoral authority resumed manual counting after technical fixes and an external audit and scheduled special reviews for roughly 2,700 of about 19,000 tally sheets flagged as inconsistent.
• The governing Libre party demands total annulment and has called for protests, as President Xiomara Castro alleges manipulation of preliminary results and interference by U.S. President Donald Trump.
• The U.S. State Department says the election was conducted with integrity and finds no credible basis to void it, noting OAS and EU observers monitored the process.
• Tensions rose as Honduras’ attorney general reactivated an international arrest warrant for ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández—pardoned and released in the U.S. this month—on money laundering and fraud allegations.