Supporters of Honduras’ opposition leader Salvador Nasralla came out in the western town of Ocotepeque on Wednesday evening, November 29, to show their anger at President Juan Orlando Hernández for calling an early election win.
Nasralla campaigned on an anti-corruption platform represented by the Opposition Alliance which consists of the Liberal Party and the opposition leader’s own PAC (Partido Anticorrupción).
Final election results are due to be confirmed on Thursday, November 30, but Nasralla had already criticized the national electoral authority for irregularities in the electoral data, Honduran news site La Prensa reported.
Meanwhile Honduran news site La Tribuna suggested the president had marginally edged ahead in the electoral count on November 29. He had been criticized for running for a second term; the Honduran constitution previously outlawed a president’s re-election until a Supreme Court ruling overturned the ban in 2015, the BBC reported. Credit: Facebook/Brandon Landaverde Erazo via Storyful