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Nasry "Tito" Asfura of the right-wing National Party and Liberal Party contender Salvador Nasralla maintain a "technical tie" in the country’s elections, Honduras’ electoral body said. Asfura, backed by US President Donald Trump, only held a lead of 515 votes over Nasralla, National Electoral Council head Ana Paola Hall posted on her X account. A manual count of the votes will now take place, Hall said. The winner with a simple majority will govern the Central American country from 2026 to 2030. Earlier, Trump intervened in the close presidential race by threatening to cut aid to the country if his favored candidate, Asfura, is not successful. Trump also announced that he would pardon a former President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

Who are the candidates for the next president of Honduras?
Honduras could be the next country in Latin America, after Argentina and Bolivia, to lurch to the right after years of leftist rule. Polls show three candidates neck-and-neck in the race to succeed leftist President Xiomara Castro, whose husband, Manuel Zelaya, also led the country before being toppled in a 2009 coup. Trump-backed Asfura, 60-year-old lawyer Rixi Moncada from the ruling Libre party, and 72-year-old TV host Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party are the leading candidates to become the next president of Honduras.

Trump has conditioned continued financial support for one of Latin America’s poorest countries on Asfura, the 67-year-old former mayor of Honduras’ capital Tegucigalpa, winning. "If he (Asfura) doesn’t win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad," he posted on Friday on his Truth Social platform, echoing threats he made in support of Argentine President Javier Milei’s party in recent midterms. Trump also announced on Friday he planned to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez, of the National Party, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for cocaine trafficking and other charges. The elections, in which the 128 members of Congress, hundreds of mayors, and thousands of other public officials will also be elected, are taking place in a polarized climate, with the three top candidates accusing each other of fraud. Moncada has even suggested she will not recognize the official results.

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