Thousands protest against Honduras ‘electoral fraud’ as counting resumes
Tegucigalpa — Thousands of Hondurans took to the streets in protest against "electoral fraud" on Sunday, as vote counting resumed a week after President Juan Orlando Hernandez and opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla went head to head in the polls. Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) president David Mataramos announced a review of 1,006 votes presenting inconsistencies — despite the opposing Alliance Against the Dictatorship calling for 5,173 votes to be scrutinised. "We feel that the Honduran people deserve the results and this (count) cannot be stopped," Mataramos said. Nasralla supporters in the capital Tegucigalpa marched near to where the count was resumed, banging on pots, blaring vuvuzelas and singing campaign songs including insults towards Hernandez. "They are stealing our votes," Jesus Elviz told AFP, visibly angry. Meanwhile, a group of women handed out flowers to demonstrators, and threw petals at riot and military police nearby. On Friday, 19-year-old Kimberly Fonseca wa...
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