Over half of Honduran voters did not vote in the controversial general elections of November 29 in Honduras, held under the de facto regime, according to figures from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
In total, 2,300,056 Hondurans voted in the election, of the 4,611,211 eligible voters, which means around 49%, according to final data for the TSE, which has not quantified the abstention.
These figures contrast with the 62% participation ones announced by the Electoral Tribunal hours after the polls closed in this election unknown to most of the international community, excluding the United States, Costa Rica, Peru and Panama, while Chile evaluates recognition.
In the previous elections, in which the deposed President Manuel Zelaya was elected by a narrow margin, 54% of eligible voters voted.
Zelaya, who was deposed in a coup on June 28th, had urged the Hondurans to refrain from voting since this election is considered illegitimate, being conducted under the de facto government headed by Roberto Micheletti.
The TSE also confirmed that Porfirio Lobo, the National Party presidential candidate (right) won 56% of the valid votes, compared to 38% of the Liberal party candidate, Elvin Santos, the same party of Micheletti and Zelaya.
Three other parties that competed in the race reached less than 2% of the vote.
Hondurans also elected 128 deputies and their alternates, as well as 20 lawmakers of the Central American Parliament, based in Guatemala.
Lobo is scheduled to take office on Jan. 27 to a period of four years, the same day that Zelaya would complete its constitutional mandate.
The future leader has called for the resignation of Micheletti, so that his government is recognized and the international community to reopen the tap financial aid to Honduras, frozen after the coup.
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