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Left-wing President Xiomara Castro of Honduras claimed connected Thursday (October 30, 2025) that the Opposition was plotting an "electoral coup" successful a Presidential ballot acceptable for November 30, adding to tensions successful a run marked by mudslinging.
Attorney General Johel Zelaya released audio recordings connected Wednesday (October 29) successful which 2 Opposition members, 1 of whom is connected the predetermination commission, are purportedly heard discussing "altering the fashionable vote" against the ruling Libre enactment with an unidentified subordinate of the equipped forces.
The recordings assertion to amusement the absorption plotting to harm the re-election chances of Ms. Castro's leftist Libre party.
"I condemn successful the strongest imaginable presumption this transgression conspiracy aimed astatine provoking an electoral coup," Ms. Castro wrote connected X, adding she had instructed the equipped forces to "immediately analyse the information of immoderate progressive subject personnel."
She claimed that "the aforesaid groups" that orchestrated the 2009 coup that ousted then-president Manuel Zelaya, her husband, were down the latest alleged conspiracy against the left.
The lawsuit has further inflamed an already tense predetermination run successful the Central American nation.
Polls amusement the 3 frontrunners — Libre's Rixi Moncada and 2 right-wing candidates, Nasry Asfura of the National Party and Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party — locked successful a statistical tie.
Ms. Castro, successful powerfulness since 2022,is barred by the constitution from seeking a 2nd consecutive term.
The 2 Opposition members purportedly heard successful the recordings — Cossette Lopez and Tomas Zambrano — some claimed the recordings had been made with AI.
Some six cardinal Hondurans are called connected to elite a president, a 128-member Congress and 298 municipal councils.
They volition besides elite Honduran members of the Central American Parliament.
The Organization of American States predetermination perceiver ngo called connected each parties successful Honduras to "guarantee peaceful and tranquil elections."
Zelaya, President from 2006 to 2009, was overthrown successful a subject coup supported by concern elites and the governmental right.
Ms. Castro is simply a staunch state of Venezuela, which is embroiled successful a standoff with the United States implicit cause trafficking.
