Honduran citizens gather outside the CNE headquarters in Tegucigalpa to denounce widespread electoral fraud and call for justice.
December 6, 2025 Hour: 9:29 am
Honduras Electoral Fraud claims intensify as Vice Minister Gerardo Torres reveals over 15,000 altered ballots favoring the ruling party.
Honduras Electoral Fraud: 15,297 Manipulated Ballots Expose Shocking Vote Scandal
The Honduras Electoral Fraud crisis deepened this week after Vice Minister Gerardo Torres Zelaya accused the ruling National Party of orchestrating a “massive electoral coup,” presenting detailed evidence of manipulated tally sheets and calling for immediate investigation. The denunciations come amid growing unrest following the November 30 elections and echo earlier warnings from electoral commissioner Marlon Ochoa, who described the vote as “the most manipulated in Honduras’ democratic history.”
Honduras ¡GANAMOS! tenemos presidenta @XiomaraCastroZ
pic.twitter.com/U4HZTQCI6s— Partido Libre (@PartidoLibre) November 29, 2021
Vice Minister Confirms Manipulation of Electoral Records
(https://www.telesurtv.net/golpe-elector ... artidismo/) – Telesur report)
Gerardo Torres Zelaya, Vice Minister for Foreign Policy, confirmed his support for the denunciations made by Marlon Ochoa of the National Electoral Council (CNE). Both officials accused the ruling National Party of tampering with Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission System (TREP) data to inflate votes in rural regions, historically used for fraudulent vote padding.
During an online address, Torres Zelaya presented evidence of ballot irregularities that he said “prove beyond doubt that the election was rigged.” He cited cases such as the Voting Station (JRV) 18099 in Negrito, Yoro, where 111 voters were registered, yet the National Party received 635 votes. Similarly, in JRV 00371 in El Porvenir, Atlántida, only 198 voters were recorded while the National Party appeared with 766 ballots.
(https://www.telesurtv.net/golpe-elector ... ada-ochoa/))
Such numbers, Torres Zelaya said, show technical manipulation of tally sheets uploaded to the TREP system, a pattern consistent across dozens of municipalities. He also criticized the media’s silence and the failure of international monitors to respond swiftly to documented evidence.
#Política || El subsecretario de Política Exterior de Honduras, Gerardo Torres, denunció un “fraude escandaloso” en las recientes elecciones y acusó al opositor Partido Nacional y y a estructuras vinculadas al narcotráfico de manipulación electoral.
https://t.co/Etzs4dfrK7 pic.twitter.com/oOkn3x6W2Q— Agencia Hondureña de Noticias (@AHNoficial) December 6, 2025
Data Reveals 86% of Ballots Contain Irregularities
Quoting the report titled Golpe Electoral 2025 presented by Ochoa, Torres Zelaya revealed that by December 3 at 8:00 a.m. local time, a total of 15,297 tally sheets had entered the TREP system. Of these, 13,246 (86.6%) showed inconsistencies between biometric data and voter counts. The majority, he said, favored the National Party candidate Nasry Asfura, widely backed by former U.S. president Donald Trump.
“The election results do not add up,” Torres Zelaya insisted. Historically, Honduran presidents win either the capital Tegucigalpa or San Pedro Sula, but not both. “If the National Party did not win in either city, how can they claim a national victory?” he asked, calling the rural vote numbers “votes of theft.”
The Vice Minister accused the ruling party of orchestrating a coordinated scheme to exploit remote precincts with weak oversight. “These are votes stolen from the rural poor to maintain the narco-political system,” he said, alluding to networks left behind by former President Juan Orlando Hernández, currently accused of ties to organized crime.
FRAUDE! Jajajaja vaya hasta Cerimedo está denunciando fraude. Unámonos Honduras
🥹 @FerCerimedo_ok 
— Gerardo Torres Zelaya (@gtorreszelaya1) December 6, 2025
Condemnation of Silence from International Actors
Organization of American States – Elections Observation Reports)
Torres Zelaya issued a strong rebuke against what he described as the “deafening silence” of major international observers—the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union (EU)—which, he claimed, have failed to condemn U.S. interference in the Honduran election. He pointed specifically to the public endorsement of Asfura by Donald Trump, calling it “a foreign intervention that violates Honduran sovereignty.”
He praised instead the international oversight mission of more than 150 delegates from 22 countries, who have supported the Honduran people’s call for electoral transparency. Their testimonies, he said, are crucial to maintaining the fraud complaint on the global stage.
Honduras Electoral Fraud and the Fight for Democracy
( United Nations – Electoral Integrity and Democracy)
The Vice Minister urged CNE Commissioner Ana Paola Hall to break her silence and publicly support Marlon Ochoa’s findings. “We must face this fraud, regardless of party affiliation, because it’s about defending democracy itself,” he declared. Torres emphasized the need for courage to “stand up against the narco-state,” referring again to the National Party and former President Hernández, recently pardoned by the U.S. administration.
He also called on the Libre Party (Partido Libre) to avoid a defeatist stance and prepare for the next phase of struggle. Despite the manipulation, he reported that the party had secured 34 congressional seats and 70 mayoral victories, coming close to winning Tegucigalpa, an unprecedented milestone.
“Honduras is waiting for Libre to rise again and confront the narco-state with dignity,” Torres Zelaya said, concluding his appeal for unity.
Geopolitical Context: Crisis of Bipartisanship
The allegations of Honduras Electoral Fraud expose more than an electoral scandal—they reveal the erosion of a two-party system long dominated by the Liberal and National parties. The controversy highlights deep structural cracks in Honduras’ political culture, where elite control, U.S. influence, and corruption have perpetuated decades of instability.
Analysts argue that the 2025 electoral crisis represents a historic confrontation between grassroots democratic forces led by the Libre movement and entrenched political interests tied to economic and narcotrafficking networks. The outcome could redefine the regional balance of power in Central America, where democratic backsliding has become a recurring trend.
International observers warn that if these allegations remain unaddressed, public trust in democratic institutions will decline further, potentially setting off a new cycle of political unrest and migration surges toward the United States.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/honduras ... ral-fraud/