Voters in Honduras will decide today whether the left should continue to govern the country or whether the right, whose presidential candidate was supported by US President Donald Trump, should come to power again, Agence France-Presse reported.
Three of the five candidates in the race are very close in the polls, which makes the outcome of the vote uncertain, as well as the acceptance of the results in the event of very small differences between the rivals.
The ruling left-wing Party of Freedom and Restructuring ("Libre") has already announced that it will not recognize the provisional results of the electoral council, but only those after the full reporting of the protocols.
About 6.5 million Hondurans will elect a successor to President Xiomara Castro, as well as 128 lawmakers and hundreds of mayors for the next four years.
Sixty-year-old lawyer Rixi Moncada, the candidate for "Libre", faces two right-wing rivals: 72-year-old popular TV host Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, who is running for a third term, and entrepreneur Nasri Asfoura, 67, of the National Party, who has received an unexpected endorsement from Donald Trump.
Trump did not limit himself to calling Asfoura "the only true friend of freedom", he said that "he cannot work" with Rixi Moncada "and the communists" and that he "has no trust" of Salvador Nasralla.
"Tito (Asfura) and I can work together to fight the "narco-communists" and give the people of Honduras the help they need," Trump wrote.
Asfura, a real estate developer and former mayor of the capital Tegucigalpa, is running under the banner of the former party of President Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022), who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking.
The candidate of the ruling left in the presidential election in Honduras, Rixi Moncada, condemned today the "interference" of US President Donald Trump in the electoral process in her country, reported Agence France-Presse.
"There is no doubt that, three days before the election, there are two specific actions that constitute absolute interference", said Moncada after Trump declared her "close to communism" and said that "he can't work with her.
"They call me a communist to hide the truth: they are afraid of the democratization of the economy, they are terrified of the tax justice law and they want money to remain a privilege for the ten richest families, not a right of the people,", said 60-year-old Moncada on the "Ex" network.
In the parliamentary and presidential elections in Honduras tomorrow, November 30, voters will determine whether the left-wing government remains in power or the country returns to right-wing rule.