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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:02 PM Nov 2013

Honduran candidate calls for protest, vote recount

Opposition candidate Xiomara Castro announced Friday that she won't recognize the result of Honduras' presidential election because of alleged voter fraud and called on her supporters to protest the win by the ruling party candidate.

Castro, whose husband Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a 2009 coup, told a news conference that she would demand a vote-by-vote recount of Sunday's balloting, which she described as "a disgusting monstrosity that has robbed me of the presidency."

Honduras' electoral court declared conservative Juan Orlando Hernandez the winner. The court says he received 36.5 percent of the votes compared to 28.8 percent for Castro, with 93 percent of the votes counted. Six other candidates shared the remaining votes.

Claiming her campaign had "innumerable examples" of voting irregularities, Castro said "we are not going to accept the results released by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and we will not recognize the legitimacy of the government that is the product of this shameful assault."

http://news.yahoo.com/honduran-candidate-calls-protest-vote-recount-045102686.html

Hmmmm. Election observers from the EU, OAS, and the Carter Center apparently are on record stating the election was transparent. I'm interested in hearing more about her "innumerable examples" of vote fraud.

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