TEGUCIGALPA.
With 2,119 (9%) of the records processed out of a total of 23,880, the National Electoral Council (CNE) last night announced the first results that give Nasry Asfura a lead in the National party, Yani Rosenthal and el Liberal Party and Xiomara Castro in Free.
76 hours after the end of the primaries of these three parties, the authorities of the CNE at 9:20 pm they published the first results of 785 minutes from the Liberal Party, 1,013 from the National Party and 321 from Free.
The results give him a provisional vote within the Liberal Party of 64,795 valid votes, 35,850 for Rosenthal (55%), 18,997 for Zelaya (29%) and 9,948 for Darío Banegas (15%).
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270,628 votes in the first cut The first results issued by the National Electoral Council they have no more than 271,000 votes. |
In the National Party, Asfura obtained 101,573 (74%) and Mauricio Oliva 36,258 (26%) of the 137,831 valid votes.
While in the Free Party, of the 34,536 valid votes, Castro received 26,228 votes (76%), Nelson Ávila 5,237 (15%), Carlos Eduardo Reina 1,663 (5%) and Wilfredo Méndez 1,408 (4%).
The minutes were retrieved, scanned and sent to the counting center CNE Tuesday evening with the suitcases from Comayagua and continued with those from Francisco Morazán, Santa Bárbara and Islas de la Bahía,
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Blank votes. In the first 2,119 minutes, the National Party achieved the highest percentage of blank votes (62%); Liberals 30% and free 8%. |
Until last night, in the assembly center in Infop, the CNE He had received 95% of the minutes and is waiting for those of Atlántida and Colón to pick up 100%.
Kelvin Aguirre, advisor to the CNEHe told journalists last night after issuing the first results bulletin that it should be remembered that “there are 23,880 receiving polling stations” and of that amount, that institution already has “more than 9,000 minutes investigating.”
However, in the first cutoff, recorded until 8pm, Aguirre explained that “we are talking about more than 2,000 procedure
When Rosenthal heard the first results, he expressed his joy in the presence of journalists and called on members of the opposition movements to join the union ahead of the November general election.
Thank you Liberals for voting for the unity of our party. It’s time to face this government that has maintained Honduras sunk in corruption and lack of opportunity, ”Yani wrote on his Twitter account last night.
Meanwhile, Luis Zelaya expressed dissatisfaction with the initial march of results that brought him as a loser. However, he does not consider himself defeated because 91% of the minutes are still missing.
Zelaya criticized last night that the CNE It did not allow him to compare the minutes they were scanning with the copies his movement has, despite the fact that since Monday he has requested that electoral body “so that there is transparency in the process.”
“It is clear to us that there is a script here, which is also clear that the projections given in the exit polls were not correct, it was not 6%, it was more than double, according to what was in the results. from CNEIt doesn’t tell us which department it comes from, because in the archives we’ve seen there are massive irregularities and inconsistencies, ”he told the media.
In addition, he posted on his Twitter account: “Apparently exit polls were wrong, the difference was not 6% but almost double … How handy that even with @dariobanegas we cannot surpass who wants the @CneHonduras to be the winner. Without transparency, without saying which department those minutes belong to ”.
critics
Before Hondurans received the first data, the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church insisted on it CNE to exercise their function ethically and not “delay” the final check.
“It is not a matter of calm down the different sectors, it calls for ethics,” said Juan Ángel López, spokesman for the Bishops’ Conference, after the councilors of the CNE they asked for calm from the citizens.
Last Tuesday, Ana Paola Hall, president of the CNE, and Rixi Moncada, counsel, called for calm, defending themselves, arguing that the electoral law gives them 30 days to issue the official results.
“The excuse is that they have 30 days to present the final report, but nowhere in the world are they going to delay things that much,” López criticized.
Pastor Alberto Solórzano, representative of the Evangelical Brotherhood of Honduras (CEH), said that “it is a pity that the CNE have not refined all the details before developing internal elections and added the delay in the official delivery of results ”.
For Solórzano, the CNE by failing to deliver the results on the night of the elections, has provoked confrontations within the political parties and created uncertainty in a society that believes that the authorities of that agency are committing fraud.
“Let’s hope the right decisions will be made to get out of this moment with lessons learned that will enable us to improve in the light of general electionSolórzano said.
The rector of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), Francisco Herrera, warned that the lack of information is causing distancing and cracking within political parties.
“Our recommendation is to streamline the processing of results and deliver them quickly to the population. This will give political movements peace of mind and they will be able to resolve their disputes correctly based on dialogue and the law,” he said. . Juan Carlos Sikaffy, chairman of the Honduran Board of Private Enterprises (Cohep).