In a press conference held on the night of Sunday, October 7, officials from the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras said they were willing to resume publishing the results of the elections of November 30 after several days of “technical problems” that would have prevented their disclosure, plunging the country into uncertainty in the last week.

First modification: 07/12/2025 - 21:44

Hondruas will soon meet its new president. This was dropped tonight by the National Electoral Council of the Central American country, which, through a press conference, confirmed that, when the technical problems are resolved, the publication of the results of the presidential elections on November 30 will be resumed.

Regarding the delays, and prior to the nighttime appearance of the CNE, Ochoa, representing the leftist Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre), appeared before the media without the accompaniment of the CNE president advisor, Ana Paola Hall, of the Liberal Party, nor the National Party advisor, Cossette Alejandra López, with whom the plenary session of the electoral body is completed.

Specifically, Ochoa denounced a change in the security code of two modules of the system with which the scrutiny is carried out.

In this regard, the counselor pointed out that the company responsible for the preliminary transmission of the votes recognized that in the module for disseminating the electoral results there was a variation in the "hash" (label or numeral), although it assured that the source code "had not been modified."

The "hash," according to Ochoa, serves to ensure that the counting system software has not been altered.

Therefore, if the "hash" changes, it means that something in the modules of the results transmission system (TREP) was modified, which may raise doubts about the reliability of the vote count.

"The irregularities that I share with you today are additional to those that had already been found on Thursday and every day we are finding new ones," Ochoa emphasized to journalists at the CNE headquarters in Tegucigalpa.

In fact, Ochoa explained that verification of the operation time of the transmission systems showed that many had been in operation for "less than six days," and "some even less than five minutes."

Due to the above, he clarified, "there is no certainty that the sealed systems that remain in action are effectively those that have been used these last seven days" during the counting of the votes.

Lack of confidence in election results

For Ochoa, the lack of certainty about the computer security of the electoral process in Honduras leaves the CNE "faced with the impossibility of guaranteeing that the electoral records have been processed by the same software that was indicated on election day."

This situation "compromises the validity of the results generated from these systems" and exposes the CNE "to possible administrative, civil and criminal responsibilities", which is why it proposed that the Public Ministry (Prosecutor's Office) open an investigation in this regard.

The counselor cited article 282 of the Electoral Law, which establishes that the software cannot be modified without approval of the plenary session, and warned that a change in the source code "without authorization of the plenary session" would imply access and modifications to the already sealed system.

He also criticized the lack of transparency and the absence of updates on the results release page for 36 hours, calling the process "the most manipulated and least credible elections in the country's democratic history."

The scrutiny of the elections in Honduras stopped last Friday with preliminary results from the CNE with 88.02% of the minutes counted.

Until that moment, the presidential candidate of the National Party, Nasry 'Tito' Asfura, who is supported by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, was in first place.

Asfura won with 1,132,321 votes (40.19%), while Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate of the Liberal Party, added 1,112,570 votes (39.49%).

The official Libre candidate, Rixi Moncada, who is betting on being the successor of the first female president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, is third with 543,675 ballots (19.30%).

(EFE)

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