Dec 27, 2025
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The newly announced president of Honduras is a former mayor of Tegucigalpa who presents himself as a helpful personality manager.
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Nasry "Tito" Asfura, elected president of Honduras: this is the "Priest under order"
The newly declared president of Honduras is a former mayor of Tegucigalpa who presents himself as a leader of the people who only comes to help.
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The nickname Log In was born almost by accident, in 2005, during his first campaign for mayor of Tegucigalpa, when he lost.In a radio commercial without a closed script, with repeated improvisations, Tito Asfura uttered the phrase "Dad, at your command" ... a spontaneous, colloquial, modest closing.He lost that election, but the slogan remained.Twenty years later, when you return to Tegucigalpa, they are all on the posters on the streets, no need to explain it anymore: in the streets, in the rallies, in the markets, everything is "Dada order, Dad order."This phrase survived the defeat and became a political identity.
Spatzen (Tegucigalpa, 1958) comes to the presidency of Honduras as a well-known figure in national politics, but also as a very specific product of the country's moment.
A Palestinian-born businessman, a long-time government manager who survived many defeats, his victory closes an era marked by the collapse of the National Party and opens an era filled with questions about governance and legitimacy.In the yearHe served two consecutive terms as mayor of Tegucigalpa, vice president, director of the Honduran Social Investment Fund and a two-time presidential candidate before narrowly winning the presidency in 2025.
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At the age of 67, he will become the oldest president of the Honduran democratic era when he takes office on January 27, 2026. The big leap came in 2014 when he became mayor of Tegucigalpa. He served for twelve years, until 2022, and built his reputation on a policy of visible works: roundabouts, overpasses, overpasses andinfrastructure that changed the face of the capital.To his followers, he was a mayor who "got things done."To his critics, a symbol of aggressive governance marked by tree felling and controversial urban planning decisions.In any case, it was there that he strengthened his political brand and his slogan: "Only work and more work."
Alleged diversion of funds
His career, however, is not without shadows.He faced an investigation for allegedly diverting funds from the office of the mayor of Tegucigalpa.In 2020, a process was requested for the use of municipal checks for personal expenses and transfers to private accounts.He always said that they were administrative mechanisms to speed up payments and that the money was returned.his benefit.For his followers, he came out stronger;For his detractors, the case has never been completely clear.
Asfura was aspiring to the presidency for the first time in 2021, at the worst moment of his formation.Corruption scandals and the accusations and conviction of the former president of the United States, Juan Orlando Hernández, for drug trafficking, hit the National Party.The leftist Xiomara Castro won that election, with the support of a coalition that included Salvador Nasralla.Asfura was beaten and temporarily retired from the top of the starting line, he stayed away from Hernández and the old national guard.
His return to 2025 was more calculated.He avoided an ideological tone, presented himself as a manager and promised stability. Health education and infrastructure are specified. Attracting investments and creating jobs for young people and women; There is talk of modernizing hospitals.In the field of security.It proposes community prevention and attention to the structural causes of violence, a central discourse for the crime-ridden state.
His presidential victory, with 1,479,822 votes and only 27,026 votes from Salvador Nasrallah, put him in a difficult position.He is the candidate who won the most votes in the history of the National Party, but one of the presidents elected by the narrowest margin.In addition to this data there was a big external factor: the open support of Donald Trump, who asked Asfoura to vote and warned that there would be dire consequences if someone else won.This support was guaranteed and determined his foreign policy from day one.
Married to Lisette del Cid for four decades and father of three daughters, Azfura has always maintained the image of a stable and sensible family.Now he comes to the presidency, a country divided, an opposition that does not recognize his victory and a past that casts old shadows again.Governing Honduras, "Bobby a la Orton", will be his most difficult task.
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