Protesters repeated “Leave, JOH! Out, JOH!” (Hernandez’s initials), accusing the president of leading a fraud and the electoral tribunal to orchestrate a “robbery” to Nasralla (64), a television presenter and candidate of the leftist Alliance of Opposition Against the Dictatorship.
The votes are being stolen,”
said Jesús Elvis, a 58-year-old accountant carrying a banner near a police cordon, hours before the start of the nightly curfew decreed by the government on Friday after the outbreak of violent protests and looting.
Nasralla, present at the demonstration, insisted that the electoral result published so far represents theft to his party.
A group of women distributed flowers to the demonstrators and threw petals at the large squad of riot and military police who were in the vicinity.
A 19-year-old girl, Kimberly Fonseca, died Friday of a gunshot wound in the midst of a clash between protesters and police in the Villanueva neighborhood of the capital. The authorities said they were investigating “exhaustively” the complaint of her relatives, who say she was killed by police shots.
After a week of the elections, the TSE has not yet announced the winner of those elections, but the advantage keeps Hernandez with 42.92% of the votes against 41.42% of Nasralla, with a scrutiny of 94.45% of the minutes.
We’re fed up, we do not want a dictatorship. International institutions, put your eyes on Honduras,”
added a young man who covered his face with a handkerchief.
The demonstrators beat pots and made vuvuzela sound during the protest, while singing songs used during the political campaign and including insults to President Hernandez.