The presidential candidate for Honduras' conservative Liberal Party, Salvador Nasralla, told EFE on Thursday that he cannot assure there has been fraud in the vote count from the November 30 elections, though he denounced a supposed interruption of a 'screen freeze' on the electoral board's website followed by a sudden change in preliminary results that favored his rival, Nasry Asfura. 'No (we can't speak of fraud), because the process has not yet been settled,' Nasralla stated, also recalling 'the precedents of 2013 and 2017,' when he was also a presidential candidate in those elections, claiming that David Matamoros, then a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE), committed 'fraud' against him and 'that was common knowledge.' The Liberal Party leader denounced alleged irregularities in the vote count on Wednesday, arguing that 'in the early morning the screen went dark and an algorithm (similar to the one they used in 2013) changed the data,' as he described on his X account. Nasralla emphasized that 'after the screen freeze' on the CNE's pages, the results reversed 'in a matter of seconds: 1,073,000 for me and 1,081,000 for the candidate from the National Party,' which is Nasry Asfura, publicly backed by U.S. President Donald Trump. He stated that there are 'other irregularities that it is important for people to know,' which aim 'to create a perception that the National Party has won by feeding in this data in the early morning.' 'They want to create the perception that the National Party is winning by a difference of 20,000 votes and declare themselves winners, something I did not do on Tuesday and Wednesday when I was winning and did not declare myself the winner,' Nasralla stressed. Nasralla indicated that although the CNE reports 85% of the tallied sheets, a fifth present inconsistencies and that the results actually verified would represent only 69%. He also criticized the private company in charge of the recount alongside the CNE, pointing out it had never carried out a job of this type before, and that one of its Honduran partners is a candidate for the Central American Parliament and the other was the manager of the former Energy Honduras Company (EEH). Nasralla stated that observers from the European Union (EU) and the Organization of American States (OAS) are aware of his complaint. Hours earlier, he denounced a 'data change' in the count during the early morning, after the CNE website 'went down,' as he stated, following which his rival Asfura once again took the lead in the tally. 'I publicly denounce that today, Thursday, December 4, 2025, at 3:24 in the morning, the screen went down and an algorithm—similar to the one used in 2013—changed the data,' affirmed Nasralla, who requested an investigation into the company ASD, in charge of the preliminary results portal. The trend of the preliminary results in the elections reversed again on Thursday.
