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BSDemon

(67 posts) Tue Dec 2, 2025, 04:37 PM 1 hr ago

Centrist Nasralla takes slim lead in Honduran presidential election plagued by delays as Trump alleges fraud

TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Salvador Nasralla, of the centrist Liberal Party, took a razor-thin lead in Honduras' presidential election over Nasry Asfura, the conservative candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, on Tuesday in a vote count plagued by delays and system failures.
The latest results released by the electoral authority around 2:30 p.m. local time showed Nasralla on 39.96% and Asfura of the National Party on 39.80%, with just over 60% of votes counted. Rixi Moncada, of the ruling leftist LIBRE Party, was well behind in third place with 19.19%. Asfura had previously been leading by around 500 votes when results were last released on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/honduras-election-remains-virtually-tied-former-president-is-released-us-prison-2025-12-02/

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Centrist Nasralla takes slim lead in Honduran presidential election plagued by delays as Trump alleges fraud (Original Post) BSDemon 1 hr ago OP

I think this is good news. Although could anybody with an understanding of Central SSJVegeta 1 hr ago #1

All I know is Asfura is supported by Trump Wiz Imp 34 min ago #2

Let me give some information BSDemon 33 min ago #3

SSJVegeta

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1. I think this is good news. Although could anybody with an understanding of Central

Reply to BSDemon (Original post)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 05:06 PM

1 hr ago

American politics enlighten me into where each candidate stands from the lense of the US' Overton window?

Wiz Imp

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2. All I know is Asfura is supported by Trump

Reply to SSJVegeta (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 05:45 PM

34 min ago

That's enough to know that we want Asfura to lose.

He sounds like a typically corrupt right winger

From wikipedia:

In 2020, Asfura was indicted by the Honduran authorities on charges of embezzling public funds and money laundering. He was accused of misappropriating more than 28 million lempiras for his personal benefit. The judiciary seized nine real estate properties and three businesses belonging to him. However, all the charges against him were dismissed.

In early October 2021, Asfura was listed in the Pandora Papers.

The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 business leaders, billionaires, and celebrities. The news organizations of the ICIJ described the document leak as their most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet, containing documents, images, emails and spreadsheets from 14 financial service companies, in nations including Panama, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.

BSDemon

(67 posts)

3. Let me give some information

Reply to SSJVegeta (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 05:46 PM

33 min ago

Nasry Asfura - National Party (conservatives) Former mayor of Tegucigalpa (capital city)
Salvador Nasralla - Liberal Party (center-left) Sports TV personality
Rixi Moncada - Libre (Libertad y Refundación, left party) lawyer that held multiple roles in the current government.

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