TEGUCIGALPA.
With 2,119 (9%) of the processed acts of a total of 23,880, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced last night the first results that give Nasry Asfura an advantage in the National party, Yani Rosenthal in the Liberal party and Xiomara Castro a Free.
76 hours after the conclusion of the primary elections of these three parties, the authorities of the CNE at 9:20 pm they broadcast the first results from 785 acts of the Liberal Party, 1,013 of the National Party and 321 of Free.
The results grant him within the Liberal Party, a preliminary ballot of 64,795 valid votes, 35,850 to Rosenthal (55%), 18,997 Zelaya (29%) and 9,948 to Darío Banegas (15%).
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270,628 votes in the first court. The first results issued by the National Electoral Council they do not exceed 271,000 votes. |
In the National Party, of 137,831 valid votes, Asfura obtains 101,573 (74%) and Maurici Oliva, 36,258 (26%).
While in the Free Party, of 34,536 valid votes, Castro has 26,228 votes (76%), Nelson Avila 5,237 (15%), Carlos Eduardo Reina 1,663 (5%) and Wilfredo Mendez 1,408 (4%).
The extraction of the acts, scanning and transmission to the polling station began on CNE Tuesday night with the suitcases of Comayagua and continued with those of Francisco Morazán, Santa Barbara and Islands of the Bay,
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Blank votes. In the first 2,119 acts, the National Party obtained the highest percentage of blank votes (62%); the Liberals 30% and Free 8%. |
Until last night, at the stacking center located in INFOP, the CNE he had received 95% of the acts and waits for that day those of Atlantis and Columbus to gather 100%.
Kelvin Aguirre, director of the CNEHe said last night to reporters after issuing the first results bulletin that it should be remembered that “there are 23,880 receiving polling stations” and of this amount this institution already has “more than 9,000 acts that have been scrutinized.”
However, in the first cut, counted until 8:00 pm, Aguirre explained that “here we are talking about more than 2,000 acts”.
Upon learning of the first results, Rosenthal expressed joy to reporters and called on members of opposition movements to the union ahead of the November general election.
“Liberal thanks for voting for the unity of our party. It is time to confront this government that has kept Honduras sunk into corruption and lack of opportunities, “Yani wrote last night on her Twitter account.
Meanwhile, Luis Zelaya expressed his displeasure against the first advance of results that give him as a loser. However, he is not considered defeated because 91% of the acts are still missing.
Zelaya denounced last night that the CNE it did not allow him to confront the acts they were scanning with the copies his movement has of everything he has asked since Monday to this electoral body “so that there is transparency in the process.”
“It is clear to us that there is a script here, what is also clear is that the projections given in the polls were not correct, it was not 6%, it was more than double, according to what is in the results of the CNE. He doesn’t tell us what department he is from because in the acts we have seen there are huge irregularities and inconsistencies, “he told the media.
He also posted on his Twitter account: “Apparently, ballot box polls were not right, the difference was not 6% but almost double … How convenient that not even added with “@dariobanegas we beat who @CneHonduras wants to impose as the winner. Without transparency, without saying which department these acts are from.”
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Before the Hondurans received the first data, the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church urged the CNE to perform their function ethically and not “give long” to the final scrutiny.
“It is not a matter of calling for calm in the different sectors, it is a call to ethics,” said Juan Ángel López, spokesman for the Episcopal Conference, after the councilors of the CNE they would ask the citizens for calm.
Last Tuesday, Ana Paola Hall, Councilor President of the CNE, And Rixi Montcada, councilor, called for calm and defended themselves with the argument that the Electoral Law gives them 30 days to give the official results.
“The excuse is that they have 30 days to submit the final report, but instead of the world they are going to be giving the matter so long,” Lopez criticized.
Pastor Alberto Solórzano, representative of the Evangelical Brotherhood of Honduras (CEH), said that “it is a pity that the CNE has not fine-tuned all the details for the development of the internal elections and added to this the delay for the official delivery of results “.
For Solórzano, the CNE by not yielding the results on the night of elections, Has provoked confrontations within the political parties and created uncertainty in a society that believes the authorities of this body are forging fraud.
“We hope that the appropriate decisions will be made to leave this moment with lessons learned that will allow us to improve in the face of general elections“Solórzano said.
The rector of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), Francisco Herrera, Warned that the lack of information causes distancing and cracking within political parties.
“Our recommendation is to speed up the processing of results and provide these to the population quickly, this will bring peace of mind to political movements and they will be able to resolve their differences correctly based on dialogue and the law,” he said. his part Joan Carles Sikaffy, President of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP).