Rixi Moncada, candidate of Honduras’ ruling Libre socialist birthday celebration, on Sunday known as for protests towards its yet-to-be outlined effects and accused President Donald Trump of allegedly “coercing” within the country’s current election.
Moncada, talking on behalf of the ruling socialist birthday celebration, known as for the “annulment” of the presidential elections amid what she claimed, is an “electoral coup” in Honduras and alleged acts of “electoral terrorism.” Initial effects point out that Moncada misplaced the election.
“Libre does now not acknowledge the elections held below the interference and coercion of Donald Trump and the allied oligarchy that attacked the folks with an electoral coup,” Moncada stated at Sunday evening’s press convention, studying from an legit birthday celebration commentary by which Libre denounced Trump’s “overseas interference.”
For the previous week Honduras has been below a aggravating electoral uncertainty after the November 30 presidential election. At press time, Honduras’ Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) has now not completed counting the entire votes. The electoral authority has attributed the delays to “technical issues” allegedly skilled via a provider supplier employed for the vote tally transmission platform.
Probably the most-recent initial effects reported via native shops over the weekend point out that, as of Sunday evening, conservative flesh presser and Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura is profitable the race via a razor-thin 0.7 % margin towards Liberal Birthday celebration candidate and previous vp Salvador Nasralla.
Rixi Moncada, who represented the present socialist executive of President Xiomara Castro, stays in 3rd position, with not up to 20 % of the votes — necessarily leaving her out of a trail against victory, irrespective of whether or not Asfura or Nasralla finally end up profitable the election.
Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the opposition Liberal Birthday celebration, poses for footage with supporters in Tegucigalpa on December 5, 2025. (Orlando SIERRA / AFP by means of Getty Photographs)
All the way through the previous week, Moncada levied accusations of “electoral fraud and interference” towards President Trump over his endorsement of Asfura and Trump’s condemnation of the socialist candidate’s public admiration of Cuban overdue communist dictator Fidel Castro.
In line with the Honduran newspaper El Heraldo, Moncada reiterated her accusations towards Trump and rejected what she described because the “imperial narrative of communism” which, she claimed, used to be used as an “assault” towards her.
The socialist candidate introduced that the Libre birthday celebration disavows any public legit who “puts themselves on the disposal of and declares cooperation within the executive transition with the enemies of the folks, the perpetrators of this ongoing electoral coup.”
“Nobody this is giving up, no to the electoral coup, no to interference,” Moncada concluded, calling for protests, demonstrations, and sit-ins towards the consequences on Saturday, December 13, to shield “nationwide dignity.”
On Thursday, Liberal Birthday celebration candidate Nasralla claimed to Reuters that President Trump “broken” his possibilities of profitable the election because of his alleged “last-minute interference.” Nasralla asserted that Trump’s endorsement “flipped” the race in want of the conservative candidate.
Along with condemning Moncada’s admiration of Fidel Castro, President Trump branded Nasralla as a “borderline communist.” Nasralla served as vp for present President Xiomara Castro (no relation to the Cuban dictator). Nasralla described himself as “center-right” right through his interview with Reuters.
