TEGUCIGALPA.
the National Electoral Council (CNE), which replaced from 2019 the discredited Higher Electoral Court (TSE), keeps Hondurans in uncertainty already one of the three political parties participants in crisis severe for not offering the results of the primary elections from the previous Sunday.
the CNE, After more than 50 hours of having held the elections in which the Liberal Party, National Party and Free Party participated, it has not offered results although on Sunday night the councilors announced that from Monday it would issue bulletins every two hours.
Yesterday afternoon, to reassure political leaders who have been demanding results against the CNE, Ana Paola Hall, Presidential Adviser, i Rixi Moncada, Vocal counselor, promised at a press conference that “security measures” are being taken to deliver results that respond to the popular will.
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To know Digitization of results of the acts began. The CNE began with the extraction of the acts of Comayagua. Those of Cortés will arrive until this Wednesday. |
Montcada, who is a representative of Lliure in this body, warned that the process of scrutiny, scanning of acts and data processing will be “slow but safe” and has ironically said that “without rural votes” such as those counted by the missing EAST in previous elections signaled by fraud.
While Hall, representative of the Liberal Party in the CNEHe said at the conference that “the interference of political leaders in the areas intended “for the opening and digitization of the acts, at the same time, he assured that” the veedoria will be open “and invited” the media “to witness the opening of the suitcases and dissemination of results.
“Internal movements will have access to all acts in their entirety as they came from each election table receiver. There are no secrets here, ladies and gentlemen. Everyone will have access to see what is happening, ”he said.
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13 departments By 9:00 pm, the CNE had received the ballot papers from 13 departments and was waiting for trucks from Copán and Yoro. |
However, five hours after this conference, journalists did not have access to the area intended for the process of opening the polls at the stacking center located at the Infop of Tegucigalpa.
To the extent that the silence of the CNE has been prolonged, to this extent some political leaders have intensified verbal confrontations based on results generated by word-of-mouth polls. pot and to the individual count of the acts.
The results of polls at the ballot box announced last Sunday night that Nasry Asfura led in the National Party, Xiomara Castro in Free and put in a contentious dispute to Luis Zelaya and Yani Rosenthal, although in favor of the latter.
Considering results at the ballot box and acts, Rosenthal feels convinced that he won the elections in the Liberal Party and says he is unwilling to give up the triumph.
With 59.21% of the acts processed by his private counting system, Rosenthal announced that he had capitalized 227,662 votes against 135,932 of Zelaya.
Meanwhile, Zelaya firmly in the numbers of the polls know you got the victory and that he is the new presidential candidate.
Zelaya denounced last night to the media that the CNE he put obstacles in the way of Octavio Pineda, a representative of his movement, to observe the unpacking of the suitcases that this institution began last night behind closed doors.
Zelaya, who has 90% of the acts in his possession and 65% digitized, announced that the figures recorded in these documents give him a 7% advantage over Rosenthal. According to him, the records indicate that he won the departments with the highest electoral burden, such as Francisco Morazán, Choluteca, Olancho, Cortés, Intibucá, also Atlántida where the victory is “overwhelming,” he said.
After learning of the results that Zelaya offered at a press conference, Darío Banegas, a pre-candidate for the Liberal Party, extended his congratulations via Twitter in a sign of support for his candidacy.
“I congratulate @luiszelaya_hn on his results and demand that CNE a transparent and immediate count of the acts. The delay favors corruption, “said Banegas, who, according to opinion polls, won 13.4 percent of the Liberal vote.
In the National Party, the two pre-candidates Asfura and Maurici Oliva have not fallen into verbal confrontation and are waiting for the official results of the CNE, but Reinaldo Sánchez, chairman of the PN Central Committee, demands that this body invite representatives of civil society to ensure transparent scrutiny.
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“We hold the members of the CNE for the consequences of political and social instability that are generated as a result of the delay in providing the Honduran people with the official results of the elections practiced on Sunday, March 14, “Sanchez told a news conference.
In the Free Party, which has been ruled by former President Manuel Zelaya since its founding (2011), the lack of information from the CNE it has generated an internal dispute over overall coordination.
With the results obtained at the polls on Sunday, Maria Luisa Borges proclaimed herself general coordinator of Lliure in place of Zelaya, who says he will remain in office because he has 85% of the votes in his favor.
In the midst of uncertainty and these conflicts, the CNE start last night extracting the original acts, scanning and sending to polling center.
“We have received the electoral bags from 13 departments, two are on their way, to make fifteen for today, with three departments remaining to be completed tomorrow (Wednesday) with 100%,” German Llop, deputy director, told reporters from’ CNE.
Wolf clarified that they will first process 30% of the ballot papers from the first eight departments that arrived.