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Nasry Asfura won the 2025 Honduran presidential election, bringing victory to the centrist National Party of Honduras (PNH) and changing the political landscape of Central America.
The 40.3% to 39.5% result in favor of Asfura over Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla came after the vote counting process was delayed for days due to technical errors and claims by some candidates of vote rigging. Rixi Moncada, a candidate for the ruling LIBRE party, came in a distant third.
The results of the race were intense and the process of processing the votes was so complicated that it was necessary to manually count 15% of the statistical papers, which were counted from hundreds of thousands of votes, in order to determine the winner.
Two members of the electoral council and one deputy approved the results despite disputes over the small difference in the vote. The third member of the council, Marlon Ocha, was not in the video announcing the winner.
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Tito Asfura defeats Salvador Nasralla and Rixi Moncada after repeated endorsements by President Trump (AP)
“Honduras: I am ready to rule. I will not disappoint you,” Asfura told X after the results were confirmed.
The head of the Honduran Congress, however, dismissed the results as an “electoral coup.”
“This is completely outside the law,” said Congress President Luis Redondo of the LIBRE group on X. “It’s useless.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio congratulated Asfura on X, saying the US “looks forward to working with his administration to promote prosperity and security in our region.”
Initially, preliminary results on Monday showed that Asfura, 67, won 41% of the vote, putting him ahead of Nasralla, 72, who had 39%.
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On Tuesday, a website set up to share voting statistics with the public had technical problems and crashed, according to the Associated Press.
With the candidates having only 515 votes between them, the virtual tie and crash of the site saw President Trump share a post on Truth Social.
“It seems that Honduras is trying to change the results of its presidential election,” he wrote. “If they do, there will be hell to pay!”
On Thursday, Asfura had 40.05 percent, about 8,000 votes ahead of Nasralla, who had 39.75 percent, according to Reuters, and the latter is calling for an investigation.
“I publicly criticize that today, at 3:24 in the morning, the screen went black and the algorithm, similar to the one used in 2013, changed the data,” Nasralla wrote on social media, adding that 1,081,000 votes of his party were transferred to Asfura, while 1,073,000 votes of Asfura were given to the National Party.
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Rixi Moncada, representative of LIBRE, is a prominent lawyer, financier and former minister of national defense. (Associated Press)
Asfura, nicknamed “Tito,” was the mayor of Tegucigalpa and entered the race with a reputation for leadership and a focus on infrastructure, public order and efficiency.
His win capped a divisive campaign season, with one of the defining moments of the contest being Asfura’s endorsement by Trump.
“If he [Asfura] doesn’t win, the United States won’t throw good money after bad,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social forum Nov. 28.
Before the start of voting on November 29, Trump also said that he would pardon former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once led the same party as Asfura. Hernandez is serving a 45-year sentence for aiding drug traffickers.
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Nasralla is a television personality turned politician. (Associated Press)
In the end, the election was lost to former Honduran vice president Nasralla and Moncada, 60, who served under President Xiomara Castro.
Moncada, a prominent lawyer, financier and former minister of national defense, focuses on institutional reform and social equality.
Nasralla, a high-profile television personality turned politician, built a base but failed to turn his popularity into a successful coalition.
He was focused on cleaning up Honduran corruption. The Honduran presidential race has also contributed to allegations of fraud.
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In addition to electing a new president, Hondurans voted for a new Congress and hundreds of local positions.
Reuters contributed to this report.
