Honduras presidential election: Siomara Castro officially wins

The Honduran National Electoral Commission (CNE) on Monday officially declared Siomara Castro, the candidate of the left-wing Party for Freedom and Re-establishment (LIBRE), the winner of the November 28 presidential election.

In a message to the nation, Calvin Aguirre, the chairman of the committee, reminded that Ms. Castro’s tenure in the highest office in the Central American country will begin on January 27 and will end on January 27, 2026.

Ms. Castro, 62, received 1,716,793 votes (51.12%), while Nasri Asfoura, the mayor of the capital and the candidate of the ruling National Party (PN) of outgoing President Juan Orlando Hernandez, received 1,240,260 votes. (36.93%).

Siomara Castro – the wife of former President Manuel Selaya, who was ousted in 2009 in a military coup backed by businessmen and right-wing parties that sparked protests against the dictatorship – is the first woman to take over. presidency in the history of Honduras.

SOURCE: AMPE

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Source From: Capital

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