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President Xiomara Castro connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025) denounced what she called tampering with results successful the Honduran wide election, and accused U.S. President Donald Trump of interfering successful the vote.
The last votes are inactive being counted aft the November 30 election, with Trump-backed blimpish campaigner Nasry Asfura holding a slim lead.
Second-placed right-wing campaigner Salvador Nasralla has besides complained astir electoral corruption and connected Monday described the results arsenic "theft".
Speaking astatine a rally successful the centre of the country, Mr. Castro said radical had taken portion successful the predetermination with "courage and determination."
However, the process was marked by "threats, coercion, manipulation of the TREP (preliminary results system), and tampering with the fashionable will."
Mr. Castro added that Trump had "interfered" successful the predetermination and "threatened" Hondurans not to ballot for the left-wing candidate, Rixi Moncada, who is placed third.
Mr. Trump declared his wide enactment for Ms. Asfura successful the last agelong of the campaign, declaring him a "friend of freedom" and accused Nasralla of simply "pretending to beryllium an anti-communist."
