Nasralla is locked in a tight race against the also right-wing National Party (PN), whose candidate, Nasry Asfura, leads the preliminary count by the National Electoral Council (CNE) by a margin of just 33,000 votes.
The Liberal candidate and well-known television presenter said that his party has agreed to review the 2,792 ballot boxes with inconsistencies selected by the CNE for the special recount, which began the previous day and represents approximately 500,000 votes.
However, he demanded that, after this step and without delays or acts of corruption, the electoral authority proceed to inspect the 8,845 polling stations challenged by the Liberal Party (PL), which represent approximately 1.8 million ballots affected by biometric failures and other technical errors, he explained.
“Open the ballot boxes, and if more votes are cast for the National Party (PN) because of changes made within the electoral warehouse or for any other reason, I will accept it, but until the votes from those 8,845 polling stations that we have challenged in a timely manner are counted, we will not accept any result,” he warned.
According to his calculations, after reviewing and counting these inconsistencies, the Liberals would obtain 149,155 more votes than the Nationalists.
In the opinion of the Liberal presidential candidate, the law empowers the National Electoral Council (CNE) to order special reviews in these cases, and he reiterated that the objective is to guarantee transparency and that the final result faithfully reflects the popular will.
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