Trump-backed candidate Asfura wins Honduras presidential election

Nasry Asfura has won the 2025 Honduras statesmanlike election, delivering triumph for the right-of-center National Party of Honduras (PNH) and shifting the governmental scenery of Central America. 

The 40.3% to 39.5% effect successful favour of Asfura implicit Liberal Party campaigner Salvador Nasralla arrived aft the ballot counting process had been impacted for days by method glitches and claims by different candidates of ballot rigging. Rixi Moncada, the campaigner of the ruling LIBRE party, came successful a distant third.

The results of the contention were truthful choky and the ballot processing strategy was truthful chaotic, that astir 15% of the tally sheets, which accounted for hundreds of thousands of ballots, had to beryllium counted by manus to find the winner.

Two electoral assembly members and 1 lawman approved the results, contempt disputes implicit the razor-thin quality successful the vote. A 3rd assembly member, Marlon Ocha, was not successful the video declaring the winner.

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Tito Asfura defeats Salvador Nasralla and Rixi Moncada aft President Trumps repeated endorsements (AP)

"Honduras: I americium acceptable to govern. I volition not fto you down," Asfura said connected X aft the results were confirmed.

The caput of the Honduran Congress, though, rejected the results and described them arsenic an "electoral coup."

"This is wholly extracurricular the law," Congress President Luis Redondo of the LIBRE enactment said connected X. "It has nary value."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio congratulated Asfura connected X, saying the U.S. "looks guardant to moving with his medication to beforehand prosperity and information successful our hemisphere."

Initially, preliminary results connected Monday showed Asfura, 67, had won 41 percent of the ballot, inching him up of Nasralla, 72, who had astir 39 percent.

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President Donald Trump gestures to supporters during an predetermination nighttime ticker enactment astatine the State Fairgrounds connected February 24, 2024. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

On Tuesday, the website acceptable up to stock ballot tallies with the nationalist experienced method problems and crashed, according to the Associated Press.

With the candidates lone having 515 votes betwixt them, a virtual necktie and tract clang saw President Trump stock a station connected Truth Social.

"Looks similar Honduras is trying to alteration the results of their Presidential Election," helium wrote. "If they do, determination volition beryllium hellhole to pay!"

By Thursday, Asfura had 40.05%, astir 8,000 votes up Nasralla, who had 39.75%, according to Reuters, with the second past calling for an investigation.

"I publically denounce that today, astatine 3:24 a.m., the surface went acheronian and an algorithm, akin to the 1 utilized successful 2013, changed the data," Nasralla wrote connected societal media and said that 1,081,000 votes for his enactment were transferred to Asfura, portion 1,073,000 votes for Asfura's National Party were attributed to him.

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Rixi Moncada, LIBRE’s candidate, is simply a salient lawyer, financier, and erstwhile Minister of National Defense, (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Asfura, nicknamed "Tito," is simply a erstwhile politician of Tegucigalpa and had entered the contention with a estimation for enactment and absorption connected infrastructure, nationalist order, and efficiency.

His triumph ended a polarized run season, with 1 of the defining moments of the contention being Asfura’s endorsement by Trump.

"If helium [Asfura] doesn’t win, the United States volition not beryllium throwing bully wealth aft bad," Trump wrote connected his Truth Social level Nov.28.

Before the commencement of voting Nov. 29, Trump besides said helium would pardon erstwhile President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who erstwhile led the aforesaid enactment arsenic Asfura. Herandez is serving a 45-year condemnation for helping cause traffickers.

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Nasralla is simply a high-profile tv property turned politician. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

In the end, the predetermination saw the decision of centrist erstwhile Vice President of Honduras, Nasralla, and left-wing Ramona, 60, who served nether President Xiomara Castro. 

As a salient lawyer, financier and erstwhile curate of National Defense, she focused connected organization betterment and societal equity.

Nasralla, a high-profile tv property turned politician, mobilized a basal but fell abbreviated of converting his popularity into a winning coalition.  

He was focusing connected cleaning up Honduran corruption. The Honduran statesmanlike contention was besides impacted by accusations of fraud.

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As good arsenic electing a caller president, Hondurans voted for a caller Congress and hundreds of section positions.

Reuters contributed to this report.