Honduras On The Brink: Curfew Enforced By Military Opposition Calls For New Election : The Two
Juan Orlando Hernandez
Supporters of Nasralla  who represents the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship coalition  took to the streets in response to the contested election  saying the voting results were manipulated in order for current  U.S.-friendly President Juan Orlando Hernandez to remain in power.
President Hernandez  who represents the right-wing National Party  had been running for a second term. A report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace earlier this year criticized the president's efforts to consolidate the Honduran government under his party  and the website The Intercept recently reported on  Hernandez 's alleged links to drug trafficking.
However  after taking office in early 2014   Hernandez 's tough anti-crime push won support among many Hondurans.
Nasralla  a former sportscaster  challenged  Hernandez  by running on a platform of fighting corruption under an alliance of various center-left and left-wing parties.
Prior to the elections held last Sunday  rumblings of electoral fraud had been spreading. A day earlier  The Economist released a report on an obtained recording  where alleged members of  Hernandez 's National Party could be heard planning to rig the election. The magazine did not confirm the recording's authenticity.
Almost 10 hours passed after voting ended before the electoral commission â run by members of the incumbent's National Party â released any information  The New York Times reported. On Monday  Nasralla had taken the lead  with 57 percent of the votes counted by the commission. The opposition candidate had 45 percent of the vote  a 5-point lead to  Hernandez 's 40 percent. Nasralla declared himself the winner.
Counting resumed on Tuesday afternoon  but the gap began to close. Both Nasralla and  Hernandez  signed an Organization of American States agreement  where they agreed to accept the commission's results.
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Supporters of Nasralla  who represents the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship coalition  took to the streets in response to the contested election  saying the voting results were manipulated in order for  [TGT]  to remain in power.
 [TGT] had been running for a second term. A report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace earlier this year criticized the president's efforts to consolidate the Honduran government under his party  and the website The Intercept recently reported on  Hernandez 's alleged links to drug trafficking.
However  after taking office in early 2014    [TGT]  's tough anti-crime push won support among many Hondurans.
Nasralla  a former sportscaster  challenged   [TGT] by running on a platform of fighting corruption under an alliance of various center-left and left-wing parties.
Prior to the elections held last Sunday  rumblings of electoral fraud had been spreading. A day earlier  The Economist released a report on an obtained recording  where alleged members of  Hernandez 's National Party could be heard planning to rig the election. The magazine did not confirm the recording's authenticity.
Almost 10 hours passed after voting ended before the electoral commission â run by members of the incumbent's National Party â released any information  The New York Times reported. On Monday  Nasralla had taken the lead  with 57 percent of the votes counted by the commission. The opposition candidate had 45 percent of the vote  a 5-point lead to  Hernandez 's 40 percent. Nasralla declared himself the winner.
Counting resumed on Tuesday afternoon  but the gap began to close. Both Nasralla and  Hernandez  signed an Organization of American States agreement  where they agreed to accept the commission's results.
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