Analysing Juan Orlando Hernández’s disputed election victory in Honduras (original) (raw)

ON DECEMBER 4th, eight days after Honduras held general elections, the country’s electoral commission (TSE) indicated which candidate it will declare the winner. With 99.98% of the vote counted, the country’s conservative president, Juan Orlando Hernández, leads the one-round election with 42.98% of the vote. Salvador Nasralla, a sports broadcaster, has 41.38%. Mr Hernández’s apparent victory comes after a weird and chaotic vote-counting process. The opposition believes that is evidence of systematic fraud.