Ruling Party Officially Wins Honduran Presidency

[Zorro]

Source: ABC News

Honduras' electoral court has officially declared ruling party candidate Juan Orlando Hernandez the winner of Sunday's presidential election, with 80 percent of the vote counted.

Hernandez got 35 percent of the votes to 29 percent for his closest challenger in an eight-candidate field, Xiomara Castro, the court said Wednesday. The body already had said Monday that Hernandez held an irreversible lead in the count.

Castro reacted to Wednesday's declaration by saying that there was fraud in the election and that she will present the evidence Friday.

She led for months in the polls until Hernandez erased her lead by presenting himself as the law and order candidate in an impoverished country with the world's highest homicide rate and much of the cocaine traveling from South America to the U.S.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ruling-party-officially-wins-honduran-presidency-21036701

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. This is a victory for the golpista right, and Xiomara is challenging it.

[Coyotl]

3. Also for the cocainist right!

[billhicks76]

2. Utter BS

There are few fair elections in the western hemisphere these days.

[Coyotl]

4. Almost all elections in the Western Hemisphere are fair.

If you have some evidence, please proceed.

[7962]

5. Good for them.

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. Good for who? The rightist ruling party?

[7962]

8. Hey they accomplished it without rioting in the streets like we've seen in so many other countries

Yet.
That part of the world has such a rough history of just killing or jailing opposition candidates, I'm surprised there hasnt been trouble!

[roody]

10. There is plenty of trouble.

[roody]

6. They only had to murder 20 of

LIBRE's election workers.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Yes, only murdered 20 of Xiomara Castro's supporters.

It could have been worse than that, during that short time.

I would imagine they are saving the other murders until later, after they rest up from the last bunch they terrorized and slaughtered.

I hope she will live to run again, and then avoid being murdered, herself, again.