Disputed votes could swing the outcome.Nasralla held fast to his party’s demands for a wider recount of disputed ballots, and on Saturday official results remained held up by Nasralla’s demands that a recount of nearly 6 percent of the vote be extended to include thousands more polling stations. Another protester was reported dead in La Ceiba on Friday. Police said many who had been arrested had been freed, but did not specify the number.The government declared the curfew on Friday, expanding powers for the army and police to detain people. So, the whole world will not recognize these elections,” Nasralla told local television.David Matamoros, the president of the electoral tribunal, said on Saturday that officials were still discussing the possibility of expanding the recount.The 64-year-old Nasralla is one of Honduras’ best-known faces and backed by former President Manuel Zelaya, a leftist ousted in a coup in 2009. He said on Friday that government infiltrators had started the looting and violence to justify a military curfew.Hernandez, 49, speaking to reporters after the curfew went into effect, said the government put the measure in place at the request of concerned citizen groups.“As far as the curfew, I want to clarify that various sectors requested it...in order to guarantee the safety of the people,” he said.

Source: Egypt Today December 02, 2017 19:52 UTC