Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Xiomara Castro with 77% Of the votes in Libertad y Refundación (Libre), Yani Rosenthal with 54% in the Liberal Party and Nasry Asfura with 71% in the National Party come out as the winners of last Sunday’s primaries.
In the second report prepared by the National Electoral Council (CNE) last night, based on figures recorded in 5,826 minutes (24%) of a total of 23,880, these three pre-candidates maintain supremacy; however, they have not yet b
In case of Freedom and reaffirmationWith which Castro has already achieved an irreversible trend 87,594 votes (77%) 1,455 out of a total of 114,058 registered by the members of the receiving polling stations, which corresponds to 18% of the 7,960 corresponding to them.
Far below Castro, in Libre, Wilfredo Méndez obtained 5,148 votes (5%), Carlos Eduardo Reina, 6,160 (5.4%) and Nelson Avila, 15,156 (13%).
With these figures, Castro is primarily consolidated with an average of 60 votes per ballot box.
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In the Liberal Party, With 1,924, which corresponds to 24% of the 7,960 national polls, Rosenthal exceeds Zelaya with 98,053 with a difference of 45,342, which corresponds to 25%.
According to the latest official report, Dario Banegas it has been relegated to the third position with 31,901 votes (17%) within a universe of 182,655 conquered by the Liberal Party.
Until now, Rosenthal counts an average of 51 votes per ballot box, more than the 11.49 it obtained in the 2012 primaries.
In the National Party, the triumph of Nasri Asfura, candidate for Unidad y Esperanza, is overwhelming and irreversible. With 221,479 (71%) of 367,649 votes he surpasses Mauricio Oliva, candidate of Juntos Podemos, who it reached 88,873 votes (29%) in 2,447 minutes (31%) from 7,960.
Of the three most voted candidates of the three parties, Asfura stands out by capitalizing 91 votes per ballot box, well above the average of 44.5% recorded by Juan Orlando Hernández in the 2017 primaries.
The 5,826 records processed (24% of the 23,880) contained 607,075 valid votes, which equates to 28% of the votes (2 182,490) received by the three parties in the last primaries.
Between blank votes (47,792) and invalid votes (40,968), The CNE counted 88,790 votes in the minutes of the three political institutions in elections, 13% of the total vote.
The initial results to be revealed by the CNE indicate that each ballot box out of 5,826 received an average of 119 votes and it can be inferred that it counted approximately 2.5 million votes at the end of the count.
In the 2017 primaries, the three parties received 2,182,490 valid votes: 605,550 the Liberal Party, 1,149,327 the National Party and toll-free 427,613.
This contingent of minutes examined also suggests that the National Party is the one that has drawn the most electoral power, 127 for each ballot box, against 95 for the Liberal Party and 78 votes. by the Freedom and Refoundation ballot box
The CNE, which pledged to issue a bulletin every two hours at the end of the election last Sunday, failed again yesterday. In the report he was due to make yesterday morning, he dropped it and announced the second shutdown until 9 p.m.
The Tortuguimo of the CNE It has forced the Honduran Board of Private Enterprises (Cohep) to demand speed and transparency and establish clear rules to prevent fraud in next November’s elections.
“The three CNE councilors have historical debt to the people, but they can still be changed, they have been very slow,” he said. Gustavo Solórzano, Cohep’s legal counsel, for the media.
“Trust is not earned on paper, it is earned in actions shown to the people.”
From Cohep’s point of view, according to Solórzano, “there was improvisation, they left us a stuck process and with many doubts ”.
In a press release, Cohep warned that “all of its affiliates will remain vigilant until such time as the CNE issues final and official results from the Honduran primaries ”.
In addition, the Cohep calls for the peace of the predecessors of the three parties.