Trump, Honduras
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With votes from about 41% of polling places counted in Honduras, preliminary and partial results showed conservative candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla and leading the presidential contest Sunday and the governing party trailing.
Dos candidatos conservadores estaban prácticamente empatados en las elecciones presidenciales en Honduras, según
A conservative candidate backed by US President Donald Trump narrowly leads a right-wing rival in Honduras's presidential election, according to partial results from the electoral commission released Monday.
Two conservative candidates are in the lead after Trump’s endorsement of one of them injected the United States into a tight, potentially volatile presidential election.
Nasry Asfura, 67, is a former mayor of Tegucigalpa and the candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump. His party’s last president, Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022), is serving a sentence in the U.S. on drug trafficking charges.
US officials reacted to the first official tally of preliminary results from the Honduran presidential election.