Hondurans vote for president as leftist contender vies to end conservative rule

TEGUCIGALPA: Hondurans headed to the polls on Sunday to pick a new president, with leftist candidate Xiomara Castro hoping to oust the right-wing National Party, whose 12-year rule has been beset by graft scandals, chronic unemployment and waves of fleeing migrants.

The election is the latest political flashpoint in Central America, a major source of US-bound migrants and key transit point for drug trafficking, and where concerns have grown over increasingly authoritarian governments. Polls close at 5pm, and preliminary results are expected three hours later. Some 5.2 million Hondurans are eligible to vote.

"We advocate for free, clean and peaceful elections," said Chief Observer Zeljana Zovko, adding that her team had observed mostly calm voting with high turnout, although the majority of polling stations did not open on time. Castellanos said post-election violence is possible if the race is especially close, if a large number of complaints are lodged and give rise to suspicions of wide-scale fraud, or if candidates declare themselves victorious prematurely.

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