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Huge protest demands for the annulment of disputed election result
Thousands marched through the country's second city San Pedro Sula in support of opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla
Opposition leader Salvador Nasralla is surrounded by supporters in San Pedro Sula

THOUSANDS protested in Honduras’s second city San Pedro Sula yesterday to demand the annulment of November’s disputed election result.

The march through the city was in support of Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship party candidate Salvador Nasralla’s claim that he was cheated of victory by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).

The TSE declared incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party the winner by a narrow margin last month.

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