TEGUCIGALPA: Hondurans waited anxiously with no effects released hours after polls closed for Sunday's presidential election, whilst both the president and his primary challenger claimed victory after what gave the look to be a heavy turnout by way of electorate.
Election authorities suggested calm overdue Sunday whilst the ballots had been tallied, but gave no time estimate for when effects might be reported.
Analysts speculated the lateness of the rely may indicate an unexpected tight race after a campaign wherein President Juan Orlando Hernandez was considered a strong favorite.
"The situation is critical," sociologist Julio Navarro stated. "The (electoral) court's message is that the results are close."
As votes had been being counted, Hernandez, a conservative US best friend, was the primary of the race's 9 candidates to sing victory. "We won this election," he instructed supporters.
Salvador Nasralla, the candidate of the leftist Alliance of Opposition Against Dictatorship, quickly claimed victory for himself.
Both candidates stated they based totally their claims on polling of electorate all the way through the day. Turnout gave the look to be heavy across the country, with reasonably minor irregularities reported.
The different primary candidate, Luis Zelaya, a middle-of-the-roader representing the traditional Liberal Party, opted for caution and made no comments after canceling a news conference. There had been six more candidates from tiny opposition events.
Hernandez built his make stronger on popularity in large part on a drop in violence on this impoverished Central American country, whose murder fee was as soon as a number of the global's worst. Honduras' National Autonomous University says the velocity has dropped to 59 homicides in keeping with 100,000 other folks from a dizzying top of 91.6 in 2011.
But corruption and drug trafficking allegations forged a shadow over his govt.
And his re-election bid fuelled charges that the president's National Party was looking for to entrench itself in power by way of trampling the rustic's institutions with court popularity of the president to hunt a 2d term.
Fears of just that form of consolidation -- but by way of a leftist rival allied with Venezuela -- led Hernandez's celebration to again a military coup in 2009 towards a president it accused of plotting to violate Honduras' reputedly iron-clad constitutional ban on re-election.
The country's very best court sponsored the 2009 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. But the present court is packed with Hernandez' supporters and it ruled in 2015 that the constitutional ban was overridden by way of a citizen's right to hunt re-election.
"Here in Honduras there is no democracy; there is a dictatorship," Zelaya instructed The Associated Press overdue Saturday. "The hypocrisy of the Honduran elite is evident ... the people will have to decide at the ballot box."
In addition to other folks in Honduras, tens of 1000's of Hondurans had been eligible to forged ballots in seven US towns: Atlanta, New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Washington.
Sunday's common elections had been the 10nth in Honduras since the country returned to democracy in 1980 after almost two decades of army regimes.
Despite his popularity, Hernandez had a susceptible spot within the belief of corruption.
A convicted drug trafficker testified in a New York court this year that he met with Hernandez's brother Antonio to get Honduras' govt to pay its money owed to an organization that the trafficker's cartel used to launder money. Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, ex-leader of the cartel recognized the Cachiros, testified that Antonio Hernandez requested him for a bribe in change for government contracts. The brother has denied that allegation.
And in September, the son of a former president from Hernandez's celebration, Porfirio Lobo was sentenced in New York to 24 years in prison after revealing his function in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Fabio Lobo, 46, pleaded responsible in May 2016, admitting he worked with drug traffickers and Honduran police to send cocaine into the United States.
Election authorities suggested calm overdue Sunday whilst the ballots had been tallied, but gave no time estimate for when effects might be reported.
Analysts speculated the lateness of the rely may indicate an unexpected tight race after a campaign wherein President Juan Orlando Hernandez was considered a strong favorite.
"The situation is critical," sociologist Julio Navarro stated. "The (electoral) court's message is that the results are close."
As votes had been being counted, Hernandez, a conservative US best friend, was the primary of the race's 9 candidates to sing victory. "We won this election," he instructed supporters.
Salvador Nasralla, the candidate of the leftist Alliance of Opposition Against Dictatorship, quickly claimed victory for himself.
Both candidates stated they based totally their claims on polling of electorate all the way through the day. Turnout gave the look to be heavy across the country, with reasonably minor irregularities reported.
The different primary candidate, Luis Zelaya, a middle-of-the-roader representing the traditional Liberal Party, opted for caution and made no comments after canceling a news conference. There had been six more candidates from tiny opposition events.
Hernandez built his make stronger on popularity in large part on a drop in violence on this impoverished Central American country, whose murder fee was as soon as a number of the global's worst. Honduras' National Autonomous University says the velocity has dropped to 59 homicides in keeping with 100,000 other folks from a dizzying top of 91.6 in 2011.
But corruption and drug trafficking allegations forged a shadow over his govt.
And his re-election bid fuelled charges that the president's National Party was looking for to entrench itself in power by way of trampling the rustic's institutions with court popularity of the president to hunt a 2d term.
Fears of just that form of consolidation -- but by way of a leftist rival allied with Venezuela -- led Hernandez's celebration to again a military coup in 2009 towards a president it accused of plotting to violate Honduras' reputedly iron-clad constitutional ban on re-election.
The country's very best court sponsored the 2009 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. But the present court is packed with Hernandez' supporters and it ruled in 2015 that the constitutional ban was overridden by way of a citizen's right to hunt re-election.
"Here in Honduras there is no democracy; there is a dictatorship," Zelaya instructed The Associated Press overdue Saturday. "The hypocrisy of the Honduran elite is evident ... the people will have to decide at the ballot box."
In addition to other folks in Honduras, tens of 1000's of Hondurans had been eligible to forged ballots in seven US towns: Atlanta, New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Washington.
Sunday's common elections had been the 10nth in Honduras since the country returned to democracy in 1980 after almost two decades of army regimes.
Despite his popularity, Hernandez had a susceptible spot within the belief of corruption.
A convicted drug trafficker testified in a New York court this year that he met with Hernandez's brother Antonio to get Honduras' govt to pay its money owed to an organization that the trafficker's cartel used to launder money. Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, ex-leader of the cartel recognized the Cachiros, testified that Antonio Hernandez requested him for a bribe in change for government contracts. The brother has denied that allegation.
And in September, the son of a former president from Hernandez's celebration, Porfirio Lobo was sentenced in New York to 24 years in prison after revealing his function in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Fabio Lobo, 46, pleaded responsible in May 2016, admitting he worked with drug traffickers and Honduran police to send cocaine into the United States.
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