Honduras is experiencing a new day of electoral uncertainty: the CNE admits technical failures in the disclosure of results while the OAS calls to expedite a scrutiny that has been on hold since Friday, December 5 in the midst of an extremely tight contest.

First modification: 07/12/2025 - 00:16

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Hall stated in statements to journalists that he wanted to "make it very clear that this CNE has the firm will that the disclosure be continuous", but that the failure has been due to "technical problems outside the plenary session" and "external to our technical team, and those of the awarded company, to reduce uncertainty" among Hondurans.

For her part, counselor Cossette López assured that "the entire electoral process has been a constant battle, we would like this stage to be different but unfortunately, it is not."

The OAS calls to “speed up the scrutiny”

The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (EOM/OAS) in Honduras also made a call on Saturday to expedite the counting of the general elections on November 30, which has not moved for more than 18 hours.

In a statement, the EOM/OAS, headed by the former Foreign Minister of Paraguay Eladio Loizaga, called "to speed up the scrutiny process, guaranteeing traceability measures that provide certainty in the results."

"Until now, in a context of evident delays, the EOM/OAS remains attentive to the various procedures that are part of the process. It should be noted that the statistical data collected by the OAS observers in the different meetings observed confirm an extremely close result," the observer body stressed.

The same source indicated that it has maintained an uninterrupted presence monitoring the post-electoral process, observing the counting of minutes and the withdrawal of materials in the Electoral Logistics Center and the Technology Warehouse, in addition to the development and implementation of technological solutions for the processing and dissemination of results.

He added that the Mission "has taken note that the management and processing of electoral material has registered delays and intermittencies. In addition to the above, the EOM/OAS has registered the marked lack of expertise in the development and execution, especially of technological solutions, which has caused delays in the counting."

"From Sunday night until Thursday, the Mission recorded intervals of availability of the site for the dissemination of preliminary results," the statement underlines.

The OAS Mission also welcomed "the attitude of those who have maintained patience, calling for tranquility during this crucial stage of the process" and expressed that "it is essential that citizens and, especially political parties, continue exercising the powers of supervision and surveillance that the Law confers on them."

The EOM/OAS also considers "imperative that the electoral authorities fully guarantee that the subsequent stages of the process, including the high volume of records not yet accounted for, the special scrutiny and the challenges phase, are carried out with total clarity, maximum efficiency and without any type of delay."

The team of observers from the continental organization will be on Sunday in the municipality of San Antonio de Flores, department of El Paraíso, in the east of the country, bordering Nicaragua, where its inhabitants will vote to elect their local and national authorities, which they could not do on November 30 due to several reported irregularities.

More time to request annulments

Likewise, the CNE of Honduras announced on Saturday that given the delays in the processing of the electoral results and the unavailability of the results dissemination page, it agreed to extend the deadline to request the "administrative nullity" and the "special reviews and recounts" of the votes from the elections of November 30.

The CNE resolution is directed at political parties and independent candidates that participated in the general elections of November 30 and at citizens in general.

The electoral body has not explained the new interruption of the vote count, which keeps Hondurans in uncertainty after a week of having voted to elect a president, three presidential appointees (vice presidents), 298 mayors, 128 deputies for the local Parliament and 20 for the Central American.

The highest electoral body determined today that for administrative annulment actions "an extension of 2.5 calendar days is granted", which will expire "on Monday, December 8 of this year at 12:00 noon" (18:00 GMT).

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He explained in a statement that for "special reviews and recounts" an extension of five calendar days is granted to request reviews and recounts, expiring on Monday, December 15 at twelve midnight (06:00 GMT).

He also noted that "interested parties must present their requests to the General Secretariat of the National Electoral Council," which is temporarily located in a hotel in the Honduran capital, where the computer center that powers the organization's website also operates, which has not been updated since Friday afternoon.

With 88.02% of the tally sheets counted, the candidate of the conservative National Party, Nasry 'Tito' Asfura, continues to lead the count with 1,132,321 votes (40.19%), while Salvador Nasralla, of the Liberal Party, adds 1,112,570 (39.49%), according to the official preliminary results of the CNE, which have had several interruptions since the day of the elections.

The official candidate of the Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre, left), Rixi Moncada, with aspirations to be the successor of the first female president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, continues to be relegated to a distant third place with 543,675 ballots (19.30%).

Libre today requested the CNE to annul the presidential scrutiny of the general elections, arguing a "disaster" in the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission system (TREP).

"An action for administrative annulment of the scrutiny carried out by the 19,167 Vote Receiving Boards (JRV) at the presidential elective level is presented, given the disaster of the Transmission of Preliminary Electoral Results (TREP) system," indicated the document presented by lawyer Edeson Javier Argueta, Libre's legal representative.

Likewise, Nasralla denounced this Saturday the existence of "serious inconsistencies and errors" in more than 5,000 electoral records, and asked the CNE for a "thorough review," which could include a vote-by-vote verification.

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