Honduras’ LIBRE Party is calling for the annulment of the presidential elections, denouncing what it describes as an “electoral coup” marked by foreign interference, digital coercion, and manipulation of the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission System (TREP, in Spanish).

Manuel Zelaya, General Coordinator of Freedom and Refoundation Party (LIBRE) and the opposition alliance against dictatorship, says an acta-by-acta count conducted by LIBRE shows Salvador Nasralla as the winner of the last general elections. However, these results might be nonetheless affected by what he called “electoral terrorism imposed through a manipulated TREP,” citing 26 leaked audio recordings as evidence of fraud.

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On that line, he denounced 3.6 million threatening messages sent to Hondurans receiving U.S. remittances and documented extortion by criminal groups, which “brutally distorted” voter intentions that had favored LIBRE candidate Rixi Moncada.

Text reads: (…) The electoral terrorism was imposed through a manipulated TREP, as evidenced by the 26 audios that reveal the electoral coup in progress. We strongly denounce it: we do not accept it and for these dirty manoeuvres we demand that the elections be annulled. (…)

U.S. Interference

Zelaya further accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of interfering by pardoning former President and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez, who currently faces an international arrest warrant issued by Honduran Attorney General Johel Zelaya.

Regarding U.S. interventionism, President Xiomara Castro earlier announced she would be denouncing an electoral coup “before the United Nations, the European Union, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, in Spanish), and the Organization of American States (OAS).”

“Sovereignty is not negotiable, and democracy is not surrendered,” she stated, accusing Trump of pressuring Hondurans to vote for Nasry Asfura.

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