Honduras Elections 2021: Candidate of the ruling party Nasry Asfura votes and asks to demonstrate peace

The candidate of the ruling National Party of Honduras, Nasry Asfura, exercised the suffrage this Sunday and asked his compatriots “to demonstrate peace and tranquility.”

“Go out and vote for your candidate, go out to vote, it is a duty of us Hondurans, not to forget that”, said Asfura before journalists while standing in line to vote at one of the tables at the Francisco Morazán National Pedagogical University, in Tegucigalpa.

He added that today is “A civic holiday” and that the companies hired by the National Electoral Council (CNE) must “do their job” to guarantee “transparency” of the elections.

Asfura, With Xiomara Castro, a candidate of the Free Party that in October made an alliance with the National Opposition Union of Honduras (Unoh), only for the presidential formula, are the favorites to win, according to opinion polls.

Fourteen parties and twelve candidates for the presidency participate in the elections, from which will emerge the successor of the current Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who on January 27 will end his second term in power, which he arrived in 2014.

More than 5 million, of the 5.9 million inhabitants that Honduras has, were called to the polls by the CNE, to elect a president, three vice presidents, 298 municipal mayors, 128 deputies to the local Parliament and 20 to the Central American.

Opposition candidate Xiomara Castro voted before Nasry Asfura in the eastern Honduran city of Catacamas, some 210 kilometers east of Tegucigalpa.

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