FLAMBOYANT former TV host Salvador Nasralla proclaimed himself the winner of Sunday’s presidential elections in Honduras yesterday after the electoral tribunal took an age to release initial results.

Tribunal president David Matamoros finally released figures 10 hours after the ballot closed, showing that the left-wing Opposition Alliance Against Dictatorship candidate had taken the lead.

With 57 per cent of ballot boxes counted, Mr Nasralla was ahead with an almost five-point margin at 45.17 per cent over incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez’s 40.21 per cent.