Honduran President Xiomara Castro orders vote recount, requests Trump meeting

Alex Vasquez, Bloomberg News on Jan 10, 2026

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Honduran President Xiomara Castro ordered a recount of November’s presidential election that was won by Nasry “Tito” Asfura, a conservative candidate supported by Donald Trump.

Among the reasons for her decree, Castro said the electoral council has refused to count 4,774 electoral ballots and also to review 292 challenges. She said her decision was backed by 69 lawmakers from Congress.

Castro invited Trump to meet or talk by phone “to address the electoral situation in Honduras with responsibility, mutual respect, and transparency,” according to a post on X Saturday.

Earlier, the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs said in a post on X that “attempts to illegally overturn Honduras’s election will have serious consequences.” The bureau added that it looks forward to working with Asfura.

Asfura, a construction magnate, was declared the winner of Honduras’s presidential election on Dec. 24 by a narrow margin after a long and chaotic vote count. He defeated Salvador Nasralla, a TV personality who later filed a challenge to the results.

It took the electoral authority more than three weeks to declare a result.

Eight Latin American countries including Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Bolivia rejected Castro’s decree, saying it disregards the electoral authority and undermines democratic institutions. In a statement, the countries called for a peaceful transition and dialogue.

(Carolina Pulice contributed to this report.)