Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Xiomara Castro with 77% From the votes in Libertad and Refundación (Libre), Yani Rosenthal with 54% in the Liberal Party and Nasry Asfura with 71% in the National Party are the winners of last Sunday’s primary elections.
In the second report generated last night by the National Electoral Council (CNE), based on figures recorded in 5,826 minutes (24%) out of a total of 23,880, these three pre-candidates maintain supremacy; however, they still do not have b
In case of Freedom and substantiation, Castro has already reached an irreversible trend with 87,594 votes (77%) 1,455 out of a total of 114,058 registered by the members of the receiving polling stations, equivalent to 18% of the 7,960 that correspond to them.
Far below Castro, in Libre, 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 the 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 national surveys, Rosenthal with 98,053 surpasses Zelaya with a difference of 45,342, equivalent to 25%.
According to the latest official report, Dario Banegas is relegated to third place with 31,901 votes (17%) in a universe of 182,655 captured by the Liberal Party.
So far, Rosenthal counts on average 51 votes per ballot box, higher than the 11.49 he obtained in the mayors of 2012.
In the National Party, the triumph of Nasri Asfura, a candidate for Unidad y Esperanza, is overwhelming and irreversible. With 221,479 (71%) of the 367,649 votes, he surpasses Mauricio Oliva, a candidate for Juntos Podemos, who reached 88,873 votes (29%) in 2,447 minutes (31%) out of 7,960.
Of the three most voted candidates of the three parties, Asfura stands out by capitalizing on 91 votes per ballot box, well above the 44.5% average recorded by Juan Orlando Hernández in the mayors of 2017.
The 5,826 registrations 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 empty votes (47,792) and invalid votes (40,968), CNE counted 88,790 votes in the minutes of the three political institutions in the elections, 13% of the total votes.
The first results revealed by CNE indicate that each ballot box out of 5,826 captured an average of 119 votes and deduces that at the end of the count will be counted around 2.5 million votes.
In the 2017 primary elections, the three parties received 2,182,490 valid votes: 605,550 Liberal Party, 1,149,327 National Party and free 427,613.
This quota of minutes examined also suggests that the National Party is the one that attracted the most electoral flow, 127 for each ballot box, against 95 for the Liberal Party and 78 votes. through the urn of Freedom and Refoundation
CNE, which at the end of the elections last Sunday promised to issue a ballot every two hours, failed again yesterday. The report he will write yesterday morning was omitted and announced the second cut until 21:00.
Tortuguimo at the CNE He forced the Honduran Council of Private Enterprises (Cohep) to call for speed, transparency and clear rules to avoid fraud in the November elections.
“The three CNE councilors have a historical debt to the people, but they can still be changed, they have been very slow,” he said. Gustavo Solórzano, Cohep’s legal adviser for the media.
“Trust is not gained on paper, it is gained in actions that are shown to people.”
From Cohep’s point of view, according to Solórzano, “there was improvisation, they left us with a stuck process. and with many doubts ”.
In a press release, Cohep warned that “all its member organizations remain vigilant until the CNE provides the final and official results of the Honduras’ primary elections. “
In addition, Cohep calls for calm from the pre-candidates of the three parties.