Honduras has entered a political holding pattern unlike any since the 2017 elections, which were plagued by fraud accusations and culminated with the declaration of Juan Orlando Hernandez from the National Party as the president of Honduras. The presidential and legislative election was held on November 30, yet over two weeks later the absence of official results has left the country suspended between two competing narratives of victory and an electoral system struggling to explain its own breakdown. 

What began as a routine transmission failure on election night has evolved into a prolonged test of institutional credibility. The election is plagued by contested tallies and long interruptions in the transmission results that seem to have favored the National Party candidate, Nasry Asfura. The National Party has denied the accusations, saying that it was the Libre Party – the party of current President Xiomara Castro – that tried to commit fraud all along. 

This high-stakes dispute has raised questions about the external forces now circling around Central America’s most diplomatically fluid state.

The National Electoral Council has maintained that the delay stems from technical failures, but neither the public nor the opposition is convinced. Both the Libre Party and the

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