TEGUCIGALPA: Hondu­ras’s leftwing opposition is demanding a presidential election held two weeks ago be voided and its results annulled, alleging it was “rigged” in favour of incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

The Alliance Against the Dictatorship coalition backing Hernandez’s chief rival in the poll, Salvador Nasr­alla, lodged the demand late Friday with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

Both Hernandez and Nasralla claimed victory after the Nov 26 election.

The electoral tribunal has not declared a winner, though the complete results it has released show Hernandez scoring a slender advantage over Nasralla.

Hernandez received 42.98 per cent of the ballots, while Nasralla got 41.38pc. But it said that count could be subject to appeal.

The small Central American nation of 10 million has been mired in uncertainty since the election, with competing demonstrations for Hernandez and Nasralla.

Published in Dawn, December 10th, 2017