{"id":38519,"date":"2025-12-25T00:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trump-backed-candidate-asfura-declared-new-president-of-honduras\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:06:11","slug":"trump-backed-candidate-asfura-declared-new-president-of-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trump-backed-candidate-asfura-declared-new-president-of-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-backed candidate Asfura declared new president of Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winning margin of 28,000 votes announced a month late but before review of all \u2018inconsistent\u2019 ballots was completed<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry \u201cTito\u201d Asfura has been declared the winner of Honduras\u2019s presidential election after a vote count that dragged on for almost a month and was marred by fraud allegations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/09\/honduras-president-alleges-electoral-coup-under-way-amid-trump-interference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticism of interference by the US president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rightwing Asfura, 67, a construction magnate and former mayor of the capital, Tegucigalpa, secured 40.27% of the vote, against 39.53% for the centre-right Salvador Nasralla, a margin of just 28,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/24\/honduras-nasry-tito-asfura-declared-president-donald-trump-backed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winning margin of 28,000 votes announced a month late but before review of all \u2018inconsistent\u2019 ballots was completed Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry \u201cTito\u201d Asfura has been declared the winner of Honduras\u2019s presidential election after a vote count that dragged on for almost a month and was marred by fraud allegations and criticism of interference by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 16:25:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}