Salvador Nasralla, the centrist candidate in Honduras’s presidential election, has accused United States President Donald Trump of election interference amid reports of other irregularities in electoral proceedings.

The US president last week endorsed conservative candidate Nasry Asfura, 67, and labelled Nasralla a “borderline communist” – two moves that Nasralla alleges could cost him a victory.

“It hurt me because I was winning by a much larger margin,” Nasralla, 72, told the Reuters news agency on Thursday in an exclusive interview.

Trump has cast a long shadow over the closely fought election to decide the next president of the Central American country.

The US president alleged without proof that Sunday’s otherwise peaceful vote was fraudulent after early – and incomplete – resul

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