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Weekly Report - 15 January 2026 (WR-26-02)
HONDURAS: Tensions rise as Castro and congress order recount
Hopes that the 24 December certification by the national electoral council (CNE) of Nasry Asfura’s presidential victory for the opposition Partido Nacional (PN) in November would draw a line under the electoral crisis [WR-26-01] may have proven short-lived. This week President Xiomara Castro sanctioned a decree approved by congress, which is currently operating as a reduced permanent committee and is stacked with legislators from her leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre), calling for a recount of the vote in which Libre came a distant third. The decree, which has been condemned by the PN, local jurists, civil society groups, and the international community, has sparked concerns of an institutional standoff, with under two weeks to go until Asfura is due to take office on 27 January.
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