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<h1 id="reader-title">OAS Calls for Honduran Election to be
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<div id="reader-estimated-time">Published 18 December 2017</div>
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<p>The Organization of American States, OAS, called for a
new round of elections Sunday to guarantee voter rights
are being respected and the procedure is being observed.</p>
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<p><strong>RELATED:<br>
<a
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Honduras-Election-Court-Sides-With-Fraud-Candidate-Hernandez-as-Protests-Rage-On-20171217-0022.html">Honduras
Election Court Sides With 'Fraud' Candidate
Hernandez as Protests Rage On</a></strong></p>
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<p>The Electoral Tribunal announced Sunday, the results of
the recount, saying presidential candidate and incumbent
leader, Juan Orlando Hernandez had won by 1.53
percentage points. </p>
<p>However, the OAS electoral observer mission said Sunday
that though it could not confirm that the election had
been “intentionally manipulated," the process was filled
with suspicious inconsistencies.</p>
<p>“The people of Honduras deserve an electoral process
that confers them democratic quality and guarantees,”
said OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro in a statement.
He added: “The electoral process that the tribunal
concluded today clearly did not provide that."</p>
<p>The OAS said the only way for the Hondurans to be
properly represented and for the victor to reflect the
votes of the people would be to conduct a new
election that adheres to the strictest measure of the
law.</p>
<p>The inconsistencies of the TSE’s review process were
discussed during a late press conference with the
Electoral Observation Mission, EOM. According to the
foreign delegation, the 82 experts had not ensured that
the necessary precautions had not been taken to
guarantee it’s integrity.</p>
<p>The OAS observers encouraged Hondurans to “remain calm
and act responsibly," assuring that the issue will be
resolved, denouncing the number of deaths and injuries
which have resulted from a series of violent protests
around the nation.</p>
<p>However, the European Union election observers have
stated they did not encounter any irregularities in the
process.</p>
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<p><strong>RELATED:</strong><br>
<strong><a
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Nasralla-Fraud-Before-During-and-After-the-Elections-20171217-0018.html">Nasralla</a></strong><strong><a
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Nasralla-Fraud-Before-During-and-After-the-Elections-20171217-0018.html">:
Fraud Before, During and After the Elections</a></strong></p>
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<p>“After comparing a large random sample of voting
records provided to us by the Alliance and the original
records published on the tribunal’s website, the mission
observed that the results presented practically no
differences,” said Jose Antonio de Gabriel, the adjunct
head of the EU’s mission.</p>
<p>For his part, the opposition candidate, Santiago
Nasralla, expressed through a video posted on Facebook
that "It is clear that there was fraud before, during
and after the elections. (...) The President of the
Republic at this moment is an impostor, and the Honduran
people know it ".</p>
<p>Nasralla called for a resurgence of protests Monday.
The leftist candidate arrives in the United States and
plans to meet with Almagro as well as members of the
State Department and human rights organizations to
denounce the alleged fraudulent elections and solve the
current political crisis.</p>
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