Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Xiomara Castro with 77% of the votes in Freedom and Refoundation (Free), Yani Rosenthal with 54% in the Liberal Party and Nasry Asfura with 71% in the National Party are emerging as the winners of last Sunday’s primary election.
In the second report generated last night by the National Electoral Council (CNE), based on figures recorded in 5,826 acts (24%) out of a total of 23,880, these three pre-candidates maintain supremacy; however, they have not yet b
In the case of Freedom and Refoundation, Castro already achieved an irreversible trend with 87,594 votes (77%) of a total of 114,058 registered by the members of the receiving electoral tables in 1,455, equivalent to 18% of the 7,960 that correspond to him.
Far below Castro, in Free, Wilfredo Méndez obtained 5,148 votes (5%), Carlos Eduardo Reina, 6,160 (5.4%) and Nelson Ávila, 15,156 (13%).
With these figures, Castro consolidates in first place with an average of 60 votes per ballot box.
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In the Liberal Party, with 1,924, equivalent to 24% of the 7,960 ballot boxes nationwide, Rosenthal with 98,053 surpasses Zelaya by a difference of 45,342, equivalent to 25%.
According to the latest official report, Darío Banegas is relegated to third place with 31,901 votes (17%) within a universe of 182,655 captured by the Liberal Party.
So far, Rosenthal counts an average of 51 votes per ballot box, higher than the 11.49 he obtained in the 2012 primaries.
In the National Party, the triumph of Nasri Asfura, pre-candidate for Unity and Hope, is forceful and irreversible. With 221,479 (71%) of 367,649 votes surpasses Maurici Oliva, pre-candidate of Junts Podem, who got 88,873 votes (29%) in 2,447 acts (31%) out of 7,960.
Of the three most voted candidates of the three parties, Asfura stands out to capitalize 91 votes per ballot box, well above the 44.5% average recorded by Juan Orlando Hernández in the 2017 primaries.
The 5,826 acts processed (24% of the 23,880) contain 607,075 valid votes registered, equivalent to 28% of those received (2,182,490) by the three parties in the last primary elections.
Between blank votes (47,792) and null votes (40,968), the CNE counted in the acts of the three political institutions in elections 88,790 suffrages, 13% of all the scrutiny.
The first results revealed by the CNE indicate that each ballot box of the 5,826 has captured an average of 119 votes and infer that at the end of the ballot will have counted about 2.5 million votes.
In the 2017 primary election, all three parties received 2,182,490 valid votes: 605,550 the Liberal Party, 1,149,327 the National Party and Free 427,613.
This contingent of scrutinized acts further suggests that the National Party is the one that has dragged the most electoral flow, 127 for each ballot box, against 95 of the Liberal Party and 78 votes by ballot box of Freedom and Refoundation.
The CNE, which at the end of last Sunday’s elections promised to issue a ballot every two hours, failed again yesterday. The report he would render yesterday morning omitted it and announced the second cut until 9:00 p.m.
The tortuguimo of the CNE has forced the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP) to demand speed, transparency and set clear rules to prevent fraud in next November’s elections.
“The three CNE councilors have a historic debt to the people, but they can still amend, they have been very slow,” he said. Gustavo Solórzano, COHEP legal adviser, to the media.
“Confidence is not gained in the role, it is gained in the actions that are demonstrated in the village.”
From the point of view of the COHEP, according to Solórzano, “there was improvisation, they left us a bogged down process and with a lot of doubts. “
In a press release, the COHEP warned that with “all its member organizations remain vigilant until the CNE delivers the final and official results of the Honduran primary elections “.
In addition, the COHEP calls for the calm of the pre-candidates of the three parties.