Maduro congratulates leftist Xiomara Castro for her “triumph” in the Honduran elections

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, congratulated on Monday the candidate of the Libertad y Refundación (Free) party, Xiomara Castro, for his “triumph” in the presidential elections of Honduras held on Sunday.

“12 years after the coup d’état against Brother Manuel Zelaya, the people of Morazán resume the path of hope, granting a historic victory to the president-elect, Xiomara Castro. La patria grande celebrates the triumph of democracy and peace in Honduras. Congratulations!”, expressed the Venezuelan president on his Twitter account.

Likewise, the president’s wife, Cilia Flores, sent her congratulations to Castro for his “resounding” victory.

“Congratulations to the president-elect of Honduras, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, and to all her people, who in a resounding way, gave her victory”He wrote on the social network.

Castro surpasses this Monday by 20 points the official Nasry Asfura, of the National Party, according to the preliminary report of the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Sunday’s general elections, of which 51.45% have been counted.

In the early hours of the morning, Xiomara Castro had 961,694 votes (53.61%), against 607,492 (33.87%) of Asfura, in what constitutes an advantage never before registered in the electoral political history of Honduras, although the authorities have not yet proclaimed her as the winner of the elections.

In addition, the high voter turnout at the polls stands out from the elections with 68.09% of an electoral roll of 5.1 million people, in a country with 9.5 million inhabitants.

Castro He reached the general elections leading a de facto alliance, only for the presidential formula, with the National Opposition Union of Honduras (UNOH), led by Salvador Nasralla, of which the Innovation and Social Democratic Unity Party (PINU-) was also part. SD).

He was also joined by the presidential candidate Milton Benítez, who renounced his aspirations to support Castro, former Honduran first lady, wife of former president Manuel Zelaya, who was overthrown on June 28, 2009 when he promoted constitutional reforms that the law prevented him.

To follow the trend, Castro would be becoming the first female president-elect of Honduras and would succeed Juan Orlando Hernández in power., who will conclude his second term on January 27, 2022, of the three consecutive that the National Party has won since the November 2009 elections.

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