SANT PERE SULA.
Authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE) warned last night that the data generated by ballot box surveys are not valid and are not recognized by this governing institution of the primary elections.
“It is important that we also understand that all the information that circulates in the media and that makes, reports, about potential winners of the primary electoral processes of each party, simply responds to ballot box information, are not official results. CNE he does not recognize them as officers.
Kelvin Aguirre, Councilor of the CNE. |
The only official result is the final scrutiny that the National Electoral Council is going to give and that we are going to start transmitting when the suitcases arrive, “said Ana Paola Hall, president of the CNE.
Hall and councilors Rixi Moncada, Kelvin Aguirre and systems engineers at this institution gave a lecture around 9:30 pm to announce that until this Monday, through bulletins issued every hour or every two hours, will begin to provide the results recorded in the acts of the receiving election months (MER), which will arrive from different parts of the country.
“He CNE it is not silent, there is no emptiness and it is indeed that things are becoming different. The TREP of 2009, 2012, 2013, as well as the SIEDE of 2017 died, where giving preliminary results the night of the election, we approached with a mayor or a councilman or a president and we got up with another one. This is what there is, neither TREP nor SIEDE, final results will be there once the general scrutiny is done “, added Montcada to Hall’s explanation.
Sala Ana Paola, President of the CNE. |
Likewise, Aguirre has insisted that “the official results are what this one is going to give National Electoral Council“They are not going to give any other ballot box company that may be authorized.”
The authorities of the CNE they explained that from that day the minutes of the tables will be scanned and the data they contain will be processed and displayed publicly within a period of five days.
“We are waiting for the return of the suitcases from each receiving polling station, for these suitcases to enter (…), to carry out the process of opening, unpacking the suitcase, scanning so that this scanned report can be received here at different servers from the three political parties that this time will have one polling station per party and that, in addition, will have a modality that will be quite public, ”he said.
triumphalists
Two hours before the conference CNE, Without official results and with figures from polls, Yani Rosenthal declared himself the winner of the Liberal Party, also Xiomara Castro, leader of Freedom and Refoundation (Free). While Nasry Asfura (National Party) remained cautious and waiting for real data.
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Acts The CNE will process 23,880 acts of the Recipient Electoral Boards (MER) in the next 5 days maximum. These come from 5,691 polling stations. |
The elections ended at 5:00 pm, but Hondurans were uncertain about not having official information from the CNE that showed who the winners in all three games are.
But with results achieved at the ballot box by several pollsters, Rosenthal, at 7:30 p.m., became the first to announce that he had risen with the Liberal Party candidacy.
In the Liberal Party, according to the company Total Marketing, Rosenthal obtained 45.5%, Luis Zelaya 39.6% and Darío Banegas 13.4%.
Rosenthal, meeting with supporters and family at the LQ Hotel in Tegucigalpa, said what he achieved “is amazing because eight months ago he was out of the country.”
“We got it! Honduras vote red white red, Honduras voted for change and unity. No more unemployment, no more corruption came the time of the #NuevasOportunidadesParaTodos, ”he posted minutes later on his Twitter account.
Instead, Asfura, Maurici Oliva’s rival within the National Party, warned reporters that “it is not right, it is not sensible” to declare himself a winner with data generated by polls and urged “wait for data officers “.
“We are working to have an accurate data so as not to fail and talk about things that do not make sense (…). Waiting for the results, waiting for the CNE start giving trends.
We have our own surveys, we have the information at the ballot box as well, we received it with great satisfaction. You have to be careful in this, very careful to give a fact. We are already digitizing events as well, ”he said.
His internal opponent, Oliva, did not give up last night and urged members of his movement to wait for the results recorded in the minutes of the receiving polling stations reviewed by the CNE.
According to the Total Marketing poll, Asfura hit 62.9% and Oliva 34.9% as of 7:30 last night.
At around 9:00 pm, Xiomara Castro, pre-candidate for Free, expressed her gratitude to the “Honduran people” through the media in Tegucigalpa.
“We are especially grateful to the Honduran people, with the base of Lliure who today has massively attended this electoral process, for us it is very important. It is the first step to achieve the refoundation of our country. We have fulfilled, thanking every corner of our country, “Castro said.
Marketing Total gave Castro the winner with 70.1% of the vote, a higher percentage than those of Carlos Eduardo Reina (10.3%), Nelson Ávila (13.7%) and Wilfredo Méndez (4.6%).
Upon learning of these results, Reina protested on Twitter. “The ghost of the 2017 ballot box polls is resurfacing. Votes need to be counted. All on alert and watching for results,” he said.
In addition to the Total Marketing survey, HCH and Paradigma offered other screenings that also gave victory to the same three candidates.