Honduras: Asfura back ahead amid deepening fraud allegations

Friday, December 5th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

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Moncada insisted Trump was behind these irregularities

Honduras' ruling party, as well as contender Salvador Nasralla, have denounced an ongoing “electoral coup” in Honduras involving vote manipulation and “brutal interference” from US President Donald Trump, as the National Party's Nasry Asfura -the candidate endorsed by Washington-surged back ahead on Thursday with 84.55% of votes tallied.

Asfura garnered 1,084,339 votes (40.06%), followed by Nasralla of the Liberal Party (PL) with 1,075,313 (39.74%), and Rixi Moncada of the ruling Liberty and Refoundation (Libre) way behind (519,111 votes; 19.17%).

The recount is being vehemently challenged by both the ruling Libre party and Nasralla, who accuse electoral authorities and the Colombian company ASD handling the vote count of manipulating the results.

Nasralla publicly warned that the system screen “turned off” at 3:24 AM on Thursday, when an “algorithm changed the data.” He provided examples of voting records showing the National Party allegedly received significantly inflated votes.

”I publicly denounce that today, Thursday, December 4, at 03:24 in the morning, the screen went off and an algorithm (similar to the one used in 2013) changed the data,” Nasralla asserted.

Meanwhile, Moncada demanded a review of 2,859 voting records (25.35% of the total) that lack biometric validation. “There is an electoral coup underway,” she stated, attributing the alleged fraud to a plan designed to maintain an “oligarchic, narco-political model controlled by external interests,” and insisted that there was unprecedented interference from Trump, who has openly backed Asfura.

She accused Trump of “brutal, direct intervention,” threatening to cut economic aid to Honduras if the electorate did not vote for Asfura. She said Trump posted three messages on digital platforms 72 hours before the election, saying “not to vote for candidate Moncada, that she couldn't work with me, that she was a communist.”

Additionally, she condemned Trump's timing in pardoning former Honduran President and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been sentenced to 45 years in the US for smuggling over 400 tons of cocaine, just two days after the election.