SAN PEDRO SULA.
Authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE) warned last night that the data generated by exit polls is not valid and is not recognized by that board institution of the primaries.
“It is important that we also understand that any information circulating in the media that refers to, informs about potential winners of each party’s primary electoral processes, is simply responding to information from the exit, they are not official results. The CNE it does not recognize them as official.
Kelvin Aguirre, adviser to the CNE. |
The only official result is the last check it National Electoral Council and that we will broadcast as soon as the suitcases arrive, ”said Ana Paola Hall, president of the CNE.
Hall and the councilors Rixi Moncada, Kelvin Aguirre and that institution’s systems engineers offered a conference at around 9:30 a.m. to announce that through bulletins issued every hour or every two hours until this Monday, they will begin providing the results recorded in the minutes. Of the receive polling stations (MER), which will arrive from different parts of the country.
“The CNE it is not silent, there is no emptiness, and it is indeed that things are changing. The 2009, 2012, 2013 TREP died, as did the 2017 SIEDE, where on election night we gave preliminary results, slept with a mayor or an alderman or a president, and woke up with another. That’s what’s there, neither TREP nor SIEDE, there will be definitive results once the general investigation is done, ”added Moncada to Hall’s explanation.
Ana Paola Hall, president of the CNE. |
Likewise, Aguirre stressed that “the official results are these National Electoral CouncilThey are not what another exit company that may be authorized will give ”.
The authorities of the CNE They explained that from this day on they will scan the minutes of the tables and that the data they contain will be processed and made public within a period of five days.
“We are waiting for the bags to be returned from each receiving polling station, to let those bags in (…), to carry out the opening process, to throw the suitcase away, to scan so that the scanned certificate is here in the various servers. of the three political parties that will have a counting room per party this time and will also have a modality that will be quite public, ”he said.
Triumphalist
Two hours before the conference CNEWith no official results and with exit poll numbers, Yani Rosenthal declared himself the winner in the Liberal Party, as did Xiomara Castro, leader of Libertad y Refundación (Libre). While Nasry Asfura (National Party) remained cautious and waited for real data.
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Gradient The CNE will process up to 23,880 minutes of the receiving election tables (EIA) in the next 5 days. These come from 5,691 voting centers. |
The elections ended at 5 p.m., but Hondurans were unsure because they had no official information from the CNE showing who the winners are in the three games.
But with results obtained by various pollsters at the exit of the exit, Rosenthal became the first at 7:30 p.m. to announce that he had won the Liberal Party candidacy.
In the Liberal Party, Rosenthal achieved 45.5%, Luis Zelaya 39.6% and Darío Banegas 13.4%, according to Marketing Total.
Rosenthal said during a meeting with supporters and family members at the LQ Hotel in Tegucigalpa that what he achieved “is incredible because he was out of the country eight months ago.”
“We did it! Honduras voted red white red, Honduras voted for change and unity. No more unemployment, no more corruption, it’s time for the #NewOpportunitiesForAll, ”he posted on his Twitter account minutes later.
On the other hand, Asfura, Mauricio Oliva’s rival within the National Party, warned journalists that “it is not correct, it is not wise” to declare himself the winner with data generated by exit polls and insisted ” waiting for official data “.
“We are working to have exact data to avoid failure and to talk about things that are not right (…). Waiting for the results, waiting for the CNE start trending.
We have our own surveys, we also have the information at the exit, we receive it with great satisfaction. You have to be careful in this, very careful to give a piece of information. We are also digitizing records, ”he said.
His internal opponent, Oliva, did not consider himself defeated last night and urged members of his movement to await the results recorded in the minutes of the receiving polling stations issued by the CNE.
According to the Marketing Total survey, Asfura achieved 62.9% and Oliva 34.9% until 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
At around 9:00 pm Xiomara Castro, Libre’s pre-candidate, expressed her gratitude to the “Honduran people” through the Tegucigalpa media.
“Especially grateful to the Honduran people, the Libre base that today massively attended that election process, it is very important to us. It is the first step towards the re-establishment of our country. We have complied with this, thanking every corner of our country, ”said Castro.
Marketing Total gave Castro the winner with 70.1% of the vote, a higher percentage than that of Carlos Eduardo Reina (10.3%), Nelson Ávila (13.7%) and Wilfredo Méndez (4.6%).
When Reina heard of these results, she protested on Twitter. “The ghost of the 2017 exit polls is resurfacing. You have to count the votes. All alert and caring for results,” he said.
In addition to the Marketing Total survey, HCH and Paradigm offered other projections that also gave the same three the win candidates.