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BSDemon

(92 posts) Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:44 PM Dec 9

House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority accused honduran President Xiomara Castro of "using legal warfare"

Translated from Spanish

The House Foreign Affairs Committee noted that President Xiomara Castro “is using legal warfare to pressure election officials.”
Today, Castro “condemned the interference of President Donald Trump, who threatened the people for supporting Rixi Moncada.”

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Currently there are protests in Tegucigalpa around the building where the ballots are being stored.

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority accused honduran President Xiomara Castro of "using legal warfare" (Original Post) BSDemon Dec 9 OP

Are they trying to pull a Venezuela by nullifying the vote? SSJVegeta Dec 9 #1

Libre party wants the election nullified, the Liberal Party wants a recount BSDemon Dec 9 #2

Nullification is tyrannical. Recount is reasonable. SSJVegeta Dec 9 #3

A recount is mandatory because invalid ballots are more in quantity than the difference between the candidates BSDemon Dec 9 #4

I mean. It isnt unreasonable to accept a result with an almost 1% margin and carefully counted by the ruling party SSJVegeta Dec 9 #5

SSJVegeta

(2,237 posts)

1. Are they trying to pull a Venezuela by nullifying the vote?

Reply to BSDemon (Original post)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:47 PM

Dec 9

BSDemon

(92 posts)

2. Libre party wants the election nullified, the Liberal Party wants a recount

Reply to SSJVegeta (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:48 PM

Dec 9

But both parties claim that there have been manipulation of data and of voters by Ttump

SSJVegeta

(2,237 posts)

3. Nullification is tyrannical. Recount is reasonable.

Reply to BSDemon (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:50 PM

Dec 9

Depending on what their actual law says.

BSDemon

(92 posts)

4. A recount is mandatory because invalid ballots are more in quantity than the difference between the candidates

Reply to SSJVegeta (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:53 PM

Dec 9

with most votes. Their law states that in that case, a recount must be done. The problem is that Ttump will pressure both parties to accept these very questionable results the honduran election authority is giving.

SSJVegeta

(2,237 posts)

5. I mean. It isnt unreasonable to accept a result with an almost 1% margin and carefully counted by the ruling party

Reply to BSDemon (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:05 PM

Dec 9

(The same party that claims the vote is rigged.)

Ultimately these results have nothing to do with Trump. Nasrallah only ran because LIBRE betrayed their power sharing deal with him while he was VP. 60% of the vote basically went to members of the current administration. If they worked something out with Nasrallah and honored the power sharing agreement, the other guy would have no shot.

Regardless, LIBRE is starting to act like autocrats who are trying to throw out election results they dont like on s whim. Let's face it: If the results were flipped and LIBRE was ahead by half a point under the same conditions, there would be no nullification of the vote or calls to stop certification.

GOP is a broken clock but this is the time some of them might be right.

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