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Honduras Candidate Won’t Concede Election

Honduras’ governing party accused an electoral official of prematurely declaring wealthy landowner Manuel Zelaya the winner of the country’s presidential election. But Aristides Mejia, president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, stuck by his announcement that the victor in Sunday’s voting was Zelaya, an opposition candidate who has promised to fight corruption and crack down on gang violence in this impoverished Central American nation. Full Story