Honduras vote count begins - Trump-endorsed Nasry Asfura takes early narrow lead in tight presidential race

"The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras reported Sunday night that National Party candidate Nasry 'Tito' Asfura is ahead in the presidential race, securing roughly 530,000 votes with just over 34 percent of tally sheets counted. According to the CNE, Asfura is narrowly ahead of Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, who has just over 506,000 votes, while ruling-party candidate Rixi Moncada trails in third with about 256,000. "The National Electoral Council thanks the Honduran people for the civism demonstrated in these elections and instructs all vote-receiving boards to remain at their polling centres until the count is transparently completed," said National Electoral Council of Honduras Councilor, Ana Paola Hall. On Friday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: "If he [Asfura] doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad." In this election, Hondurans are electing a new president, three presidential designates, 298 municipal mayors and 128 parliamentary deputies. The electoral results will be updated in the coming hours on the official website of the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission system (TREP)."