Honduran president Castro orders recount of 2025 election ballots
Castro said on social media that the National Election Council (CNE) had refused to review over 4,700 tally sheets allegedly containing inconsistencies, representing more than 1.5 million votes.
"This omission usurps popular sovereignty by disregarding, without legal cause, the vote of more than one million Hondurans who went to the polls. It constitutes a serious violation of the Constitution of the Republic, which I am obligated to comply with and defend until the last day of my term," she wrote.
The order calls for the recount of more than 19,000 tally sheets and places responsibility on the National Congress if the CNE does not comply. Castro noted that the CNE failed to address 292 nationwide challenges concerning inconsistencies, record tampering, duplicated votes, and ballot box stuffing, and she flagged more than 500,000 votes lacking biometric verification. She also cited alleged failures and manipulations of the preliminary results system.
The Libre ruling party supports the recount, while opposition parties have criticized it, arguing it was imposed unilaterally by 69 lawmakers aligned with Castro’s party, excluding 70 lawmakers from the National and Liberal parties from the session.
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