TEGUCIGALPA.
National Electoral Council (CNE), which replaced the discredited Superior Electoral Court (TSE), keeps Hondurans in uncertainty and one of the three political parties participants in crisis severe because it did not provide results primary elections from the previous Sunday.
NPP, more than 50 hours after the elections in which the Liberal Party, the National Party and the Free Party participated, did not provide results despite the fact that on Sunday evening the councilors announced that starting Monday they will issue ballots every two hours.
Yesterday afternoon, to reassure the political leaders who demanded results from NPP, Ana Paola Hall, President and Counselor Rixi Moncada, a vocal adviser, promised at a press conference that they would take “security measures” to provide results that would meet the will of the people.
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To know The results of the minutes began to be digitized, and the CNE began with the extraction of the minutes from Comayagua. The Cortés will arrive by Wednesday. |
Moncada, who is Libre’s representative in that body, warned that the process of controlling, scanning minutes and processing data would be “slow but safe” and ironically said that “no rural votes”, such as those counted by the missing. EAST in previous elections reported for fraud.
While Hall, representative of the Liberal Party in NPP, stated at the conference that “interference Political leaders in the areas intended for the opening and digitization of the minutes, at the same time, he assured that “surveillance will be open” and invited the “media” to assist in the opening of suitcases and the dissemination of results.
“The internal movements will have access to all the minutes in full, as they came from each one Electoral table receiving. 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 p.m., CNE had received ballot papers from 13 departments and was waiting for trucks from Copán and Yoro. |
However, five hours after that conference, journalists did not have access to the area intended for the process of opening ballot boxes in the collection center located in the facilities of Infop From Tegucigalpa.
Like the silence in NPP has been prolonged, to this extent some political leaders have intensified verbal confrontations based on the results of word-of-mouth polls. pot and the individual number of minutes.
The results of the exit polls announced on Sunday evening that Nasry Asfura led in the National Party, Xiomara Castro in Libre and put Luis Zelaya and Yani Rosenthal in a close dispute, although in favor of the latter.
Given the results of the exit court and the minutes, Rosenthal is convinced that he won elections in the Liberal Party and says he is not willing to give up victory.
With 59.21% of the records processed by his private computer system, Rosenthal announced that he had capitalized 227,662 votes against Zelaya’s 135,932.
Meanwhile, Zelaya, rooted in the number of polling stations, is confident that he has won and is the new presidential candidate.
Zelaya denounced to the press last night that NPP He put obstacles in the way of Octavio Pineda, a representative of his movement, in order to observe the dismissal of the suitcases that the respective institution started last night behind closed doors.
Zelaya, which owns 90% of its records and 65% digitized them, said the figures in those documents gave it a 7% advantage over Rosenthal. According to him, the minutes indicate that the departments with the highest electoral burden have won, such as Francisco Morazán, Choluteca, Olancho, Cortés, Intibucá, also Atlántida, where the victory is “overwhelming”, he said.
After learning about the results that Zelaya gave at a press conference, Darío Banegas, a candidate for the Liberal Party, congratulated via Twitter the sign of support for his candidacy.
“I congratulate @luiszelaya_hn for his results and ask from NPP a transparent and immediate number of minutes. The delay favors corruption “, said Banegas, who, according to the polls, obtained 13.4% of the liberal votes.
In the National Party, the two candidates Asfura and Mauricio Oliva did not fall into verbal confrontations and are waiting for the official results of CNE, but Reinaldo Sánchez, chairman of the PN Central Committee, calls on the body to invite representatives of civil society to ensure transparent control.
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“It simply came to our notice then NPP due to the consequences of the political and social instability that are generated as a result of the delay in providing the Honduran population with the official results of the elections practiced on Sunday, March 14 “, Sánchez declared in a press conference.
In the Free Party, which was governed by former President Manuel Zelaya since its inception (2011), the lack of information from NPP generated an internal dispute over general coordination.
With the results obtained on Sunday at the polls, María Luisa Borjas was proclaimed general coordinator of Libre, replacing Zelaya, who says that she will continue in office because she has 85% of the votes in her favor.
In the midst of uncertainty and these conflicts, NPP Extraction of the original records, scanning and sending to the counting center began last night.
“We received the ballot papers from 13 departments, two are on the way, to make fifteen for today, leaving three departments waiting to complete tomorrow (Wednesday) with 100%,” German Lobo, alternate councilor of CNE.
Lobo said they would first process 30 percent of the ballot papers in the first eight departments that arrived.