Honduran voters take to the streets as multiple parties push claims Victory and Fraud.
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[QUOTE]TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—Honduras careened toward a new political crisis Monday, a day after voters in the country turned out in record numbers to elect a new president and Congress.
At a midday press conference, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, the leftist president toppled in a 2009 coup and the husband of candidate Xiomara Castro, told a hotel ballroom full of feverish supporters that their Free Party had rejected the electoral process and would “take to the streets if necessary” to force a “ballot-by-ballot” recount.
“To the streets!” his red-clad, boisterous followers screamed. “To the streets!”
His wife, who trails by six percentage points with more than half the ballots counted, was nowhere to be seen.
By early Monday afternoon, conservative Juan Orlando Hernandez maintained his lead over a field of eight candidates with 34 percent of votes. He declared himself the country’s new president Sunday night, not long after Castro did the same, and his party vowed to “stand firm” in defense of their win.
Of the four leading candidates, both Castro and Salvador Nasralla, the sportscaster-turned-candidate currently in fourth place with 15 percent of the vote, denounced the official results as “fraudulent.” But Nasralla had not declared any intention to join the leftist Free Party in challenging a Hernandez victory.[/QUOTE]
The amount of percents is each party has is really interesting. Winning like that is hardly democratic.
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