Votes are now being recounted from more than a thousand disputed ballot boxes after last week’s presidential election. Honduras’ electoral tribunal has restarted a partial recount of nearly 6 percent of ballots from last weekend’s presidential election, as the country’s main opposition leader continued to demand a wider recalculation of the votes. Opposition misses recountRepresentatives for Nasralla were asked to oversee the partial recount, but did not show up on Sunday. “The Honduran people deserve a result, and the result cannot be held up by any presidential candidate or any party,” said electoral tribunal president David Matamoros. New vote demandedNasralla has called for the creation of an international election tribunal to oversee a new presidential vote.

Source: Egypt Independent December 04, 2017 08:48 UTC