The U.S. Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs urged Honduras' National Electoral Council (CNE) to immediately begin the special scrutiny process to finalize official election results, warning that any call to disrupt public order or the CNE’s work will be met with consequences, according to an X post by @WHAAsstSecty over the past 90 minutes ending at 9:46 p.m. UTC on December 17, 2025. The statement emphasized that the voices of 3.4 million Hondurans must be respected and upheld, as posted directly from the official account during the reporting window from 8:16 p.m. to 9:46 p.m. UTC. This appeal occurs amid ongoing post-election disputes, following Salvador Nasralla's call between 7:46 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. UTC for CNE lawyer Ana Paola Hall to conduct a full nationwide vote-by-vote ballot count by December 21, according to his X post. Earlier developments included an emergency meeting between National Party and Liberal Party commissions from 6:47 p.m. to 7:46 p.m. UTC to resolve the electoral crisis, as reported by CholusatSur36, and a tense standoff at the Electoral Logistics Center entrance involving Libre party members and Armed Forces, per RCVHonduras.
