The OAS and the UN call for calm pending election results in Honduras

The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS-MOE) in the elections Honduran and the United Nations called this Sunday for “calm” and to wait “patiently” for the results of the general elections held this day in the country.

In a statement, the OAS delegation, led by former Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís, called on the electoral authorities to “conduct themselves with consistency, unity and transparency.”

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He asked the candidates and political actors to have “a responsible attitude” and avoid “advance proclamations and pronouncements.”

The Mission of the hemispheric organization asked Hondurans to wait “patiently” for the official results of the general elections to be released by the National Electoral Council (CNE).

The electoral process took place in a “proper and peaceful” manner, said the MOE, and highlighted the “democratic attitude” of the Honduran people, who participated in a massive way in the voting.

“It is now up to the authorities and political actors to conduct this phase of the process with legality and democratic maturity,” added the delegation of OAS observers.

The resident coordinator of the United Nations in Honduras, Alice Shackelford, urged political actors to “remain calm” and wait for the official results of the elections.

“The United Nations System in Honduras congratulates the Honduran people on Election Day. It exhorts political actors to remain calm and, respecting current provisions, await the official results of the National Electoral Council, ”Shackelford said in a message on Twitter.

The electoral centers of the elections in Honduras, where there is no second round and the candidate with the most votes wins, closed at 5:00 p.m. local time (23:00 GMT).

More than 5 million Hondurans were summoned to the polls today, to elect a president, three vice presidents of the Republic, 128 deputies to Parliament, 20 to the Central American and 298 municipal corporations.

Today’s elections were the eleventh in a row since 1980, when the Central American country returned to constitutional order.

The elections in Honduras were supervised by the OAS, the European Union (EU), the European Parliament and the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (Uniore), among other organizations.

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