Preliminary results give candidate Xiomara Castro an advantage in Honduras’ presidential election

The President of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras, Kelvin Aguirre, this Sunday presented the first bulletin of the preliminary results, noting that With 28.07 percent of computerized presidential records, candidate Xiomara Castro leads the race.

32.88 percent corresponds to 6,014 of the 18,933 presidential laws to be addressed, at the moment Chiyomara Castro of the Free Party received 614,703 votes (53.48 percent); Nasri Asfoura for the National Party 391,800 votes (34.08 percent). Jani Rosenthal of the Liberal Party had 104,759 votes (9.11 per cent).

Aguirre thought about the participation of the population in the context of general elections. We congratulate the people of Honduras who have shown that we can build our future with peace, debate and democracy, he said.

“We mentioned that we have reached a historic participation, in which a total of 5,182,425 Hondurans voted, which is equivalent to 68.81 percent of the population of eligible citizens,” the council president stressed.

Regarding the dynamics of the electoral day, the President of the National Electoral Council confirmed that smoothlyWe highlight the flawless security level at which the elections were held, and a successful operation was organized, he added.

This is the first time this new system has been used, Aguirre explained, informing residents that the biometrics verification system was a critical factor in generating the purity and transparency of the process.

After knowing the first election results, The hypothetical winner of the elections in Honduras, Chiomara Castro of the Libertad y refundación (Libre) party, thanked the people and all political sectors that allowed her to achieve victory.

In his statements, Castro announced that he was in the process of forming a government of reconciliation, peace and justice, and added that he would work to build a true participatory democracy in the Central American country.

Socialism asserted that its de facto victory would put an end to tyranny and continuity in Honduras “Power will never again be abused in this country, because from this moment on, the people will be the eternal current in Honduras.”

He indicated that he would invite all sectors in Honduras to dialogue to find points of agreement and allow us to set minimum rules for the next government.

Earlier, the coordinator of the Free Party and the former president of the nation, Manuel Zelaya, thanked the residents for going in large numbers to the polls, today is a holiday in which the country is re-established, he said.

Xiomara Castro’s extensive advantage # Honduras. With 30% of the votes counted, Castro leads Asfora by 20 points. Hundreds of people celebrate him in the streets of Tegucigalpa and the country awaits his first words. # Honduras Turn left. pic.twitter.com/UMXsMcVWGh

– Jacobo Garcia (Jacobogg) November 29, 2021

(taken from TeleSur)