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Hernandez gets a second term despite protests
HONDURAN authorities handed President Juan Orlando Hernandez another term of office yesterday, disregarding angry protests against apparent ballot-rigging.
After a count of some three million votes that took a week, Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) chief justice David Matamoros said that Mr Hernandez held a lead of 52,000 — 1.6 per cent — over challenger Salvador Nasralla, with only 0.04 per cent of the ballots left to count.
He said eight of 1,031 ballot boxes with claimed “inconsistencies” had not yet been opened.
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