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Hernandez gets a second term despite protests
Meanwhile, Nato foreign ministers debate increased weapons spending as police investigate the bloc’s purchases of military equipment
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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