Nasri Asufura maintains a narrow lead over his rival Salvador Nasrallah, with around 40% of the votes counted in the presidential election.
Published December 1, 2025
In the Honduran presidential election, Nasri Asufura, a conservative politician supported by President Donald Trump, is leading with about 40% of the vote.
Preliminary results on Monday showed the National Party candidate had received 41% of the vote so far, slightly ahead of Liberal Party rival Salvador Nasrallah, who received about 39%.
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Rixie Moncada, a left-wing candidate from the ruling Liberal Re Foundation (LIBRE), came in third with 20%.
Sunday’s vote came just days after President Trump brazenly intervened in Honduran politics by endorsing Azufura, a 67-year-old former Tegucigalpa mayor who said he would fight “narco-communists.”
“If he [Asfura] “If we don’t win, America won’t put good money after bad,” President Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday.
President Trump’s comments were reminiscent of the public’s support for Argentina’s President Javier Millei ahead of Argentina’s midterm elections at the end of October.
Ahead of Sunday’s vote in Honduras, President Trump also announced he would pardon former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who once led the same party as Mr. Asufura.
Hernandez, who served as the Central American country’s president from 2014 to 2022, is currently serving a 45-year sentence on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
fan the flames
In the run-up to the election, the three main candidates accused each other of election fixing, and National Electoral Council President Ana Paola Hall warned all political parties “not to fan the flames of conflict and violence.”
Security and employment are two of the main concerns for voters in Honduras, which is plagued by drug trafficking and unemployment.
Although murder and unemployment rates have improved under President Xiomara Castro’s leadership, the country’s murder rate remains the highest in Central America.
