MEXICO CITY

Honduras’s National Electoral Council (CNE) confirmed Sunday that the system responsible for reporting the results of last month’s general elections was breached, compromising the validity of the vote counts.

During a press conference, Marlon Ochoa, the representative for the ruling Libertad y Refundacion (Libre) Party on the three-member council, described a cybersecurity breach that he said could undermine the credibility of ballots counted from the Nov. 30 elections.

According to Ochoa, the source code of the Sistema de Transmision de Resultados Electorales Preliminares (TREP), or Preliminary Election Results Transmission System, had been altered.

He said that someone must have accessed the software and modified its contents.

“I asked the CNE technicians if any of them could confirm with certainty that the source code of the system sealed on Nov. 30 had not been modified, and the response was silence. None of them could confirm that the source code had not been altered,” he said during the press conference.

Ochoa described the election as “the most manipulated and least credible in the country’s democratic history” and said the lack of certainty regarding cybersecurity “compromises the validity of the results.”

The results have remained unchanged since Friday, with only 88% of the ballots counted.

Nasry Asfura, the conservative candidate of the National Party, who is backed by US President Donald Trump, continues to lead with 40.19%. In second place, Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla has received 39.49%.

Nasralla, who has alleged that the election results were rigged by Asfura and his party, said on the US social media company X’s platform that his party is ready to review the results with the CNE and the National Party.