Partido Nacional

Johnny Alejandro Carrasco, mayor of Yuscarán, rejected calls to step down after a video circulated showing him and municipal officials drinking alcohol in a municipal building, claiming the people present were friends and the remarks were a joke.

Honduras sold its presidential aircraft for just over $5 million — roughly $9 million less than a previous Nationalist administration paid for it — prompting Libre opposition lawmakers to question the process while the current government says the sale was conducted transparently and proceeds will fund social projects.

A video showed Yuscarán Mayor Yohny Alejandro Carrasco at a gathering inside the municipal hall with alcohol and people joking about splitting municipal transfer funds; Carrasco apologized but did not clarify the remark about dividing a million lempiras from government transfers.

The Asfura administration briefed leaders of the Evangelical Confraternity of Honduras on its proposed energy-sector restructuring bill; Criterio.hn, a critical outlet, reports that opponents argue the measure amounts to privatization of ENEE and would ultimately drive up electricity prices for consumers.

Doris Mayell Mendoza, a former National Party official and candidate for vice mayor of Tegucigalpa, surrendered to police after shooting a man who allegedly entered her home in Juticalpa to rob it; authorities say she acted in self-defense when he attacked her with a club.

A Honduran court has ordered television journalist César Silva to pay 300,000 lempiras (about $11,200) in damages to a Venezuelan man after a confrontational 2019 encounter, a case Silva says was dismissed under the previous administration but reactivated following the return of the Nationalist Party to power.

Inauthentic social media accounts linked to a pro–Partido Nacional news outlet have systematically posted comments attacking the credibility and impartiality of the independent expert group investigating her murder, mimicking legal terminology to discredit the panel's January 2026 findings.

A congressman has proposed replacing unanimity with simple majority voting and reducing quorum requirements at Honduras's National Electoral Council and Electoral Court to break deadlocks, amid current staffing vacancies and absences that have raised concerns about institutional stability.

Two days after approving the Agroindustrial Protection Law, Congress modified it outside normal legislative procedure to extend tax and permitting benefits to energy and tourism sectors, a move critics say violates parliamentary rules and threatens indigenous and Garífuna lands.

Lawyers from Colombian President Gustavo Petro's party filed a complaint with Honduras's Public Ministry against former President Juan Orlando Hernández, alleging terrorist association and crimes against humanity based on disputed audio recordings, as forensic analysis of the recordings remains inconclusive.

The National Party government is proposing to use private hospital capacity to reduce a public surgery waiting list, drawing warnings from medical leaders that the measure could lead to broader health privatization.