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Honduras Vote Count Stalls as Special Review Lurches On With Asfura Still Ahead

U.S. visa penalties plus obstruction claims raise pressure with the Dec. 30 certification deadline nearing.

Overview

  • With roughly 99.87% of tally sheets processed, Nasry Asfura holds about 40.29% to Salvador Nasralla’s near 39.6%, a gap of around twenty thousand votes.
  • The electoral authority’s special scrutiny of 2,792 inconsistent tally sheets has advanced slowly, pausing for hours overnight before resuming Sunday and totaling about a thousand reviewed since Thursday.
  • The CNE president, Ana Paola Hall, reported a climate of intimidation and accused party-appointed board members of deliberate delays, urging parties to replace those obstructing the process.
  • The United States revoked or denied visas to Honduran officials it says undermined the count, naming Mario Morazán and Marlon Ochoa among those targeted, and warned of further measures.
  • Nasralla seeks to expand the review to thousands more urns and has called for a vote-by-vote recount, but the CNE says current law does not permit a nationwide recount without specific legal cause, as the military pledges to respect certified results.