Honduran centrist presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla maintained a small lead over Trump-backed conservative Nasry Asfura on Wednesday, when a technical problem delayed the fourth day of vote-counting.

With 79.97% of votes counted, the Liberal Party's Nasralla held 40.27%, just over 14,000 votes ahead of the National Party's Asfura, who had 39.68%. Rixi Moncada of the ruling leftist LIBRE Party was well behind in third place with 19.01%. System outages have beset the impoverished Central American nation's fiercely contested election since it took place on Sunday, and U.S. President Donald Trump, who has strongly backed Asfura, has alleged election fraud, without providing evidence.

The delay in updating the vote tallies on Wednesday was the second such stoppage, with members of the

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