Conservative right candidate, Nasry Asfura, has been declared winner of the Presidential elections in Honduras, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE).
Asfura, a former mayor of the country’s capital, is famously backed by US President Donald Trump. He won the current presidential elections in his second bid for presidency.
In a post on X, he wrote: “Honduras: I am prepared to govern. I will not let you down”.
The results were announced on December 24 following a multi-week vote count in which Asfura beat his nearest rival, Salvador Nasralla.
According to the NCE, Asfura received approximately 40.27 per cent of the vote share, while Nasralla of the conservative Liberal Party, received 39.53 per cent.
Meanwhile, Rixi Moncada, the leftist candidate backed by outgoing President Xiomara Castro’s leftist LIBRE party, took third place with just 19.19 per cent of the vote. Castro was elected in 2021 on promises that he would tackle rising corruption, inflation, and violence in the South American country.
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Meanwhile, Asfura’s victory was also celebrated by Marco Rubio, United States Secretary of State, who congratulated the people of Honduras for electing “the right man for the job”.
“The people of Honduras have spoken … [US President Donald Trump's administration] looks forward to working with [Asfura’s] administration to advance prosperity and security in our hemisphere,” Rubio said.
Trump, while endorsing Asfura, had said that the “US would only work with a government that doesn’t follow the communist ideologies and leans towards the left”.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump had also accused Nasralla of being a “borderline Communist” who was working to split the anti-LIBRE vote.
On Tuesday night, Nasralla addressed the US President’s claims, saying, “President, your endorsed candidate in Honduras is complicit in silencing the votes of our citizens.
If he is truly worthy of your backing, if his hands are clean, if he has nothing to fear, then why doesn’t he allow for every vote to be counted?”
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