Thursday night, Hernandez was ahead by more than 45,000 votes with nearly 93 per cent of Sunday's votes processed. Opposition supporters protested through the night outside the electoral court’s facilities, setting up some highway roadblocks and lighting fires in the streets. Those will most likely require a special count and it was unclear how many votes were at play in those cases, he said. Late Wednesday, Nasralla disavowed an agreement he and Hernandez had signed with the Organization of American States to respect the official results. That is unacceptable.” Hernandez said he would respect the result and called for calm while the final votes were counted.

Source: thestar December 01, 2017 01:52 UTC