Annotation

The article examines the specifics of organizing and conducting the general elections in the Republic of Honduras held on November 30, 2025, which the authors attended as international observers. The authors highlight several legal features: the mandatory nature of primary elections, use of the first-past-the-post system, implementation of a biometric system, party-based formation of electoral bodies, and a differentiated approach to organizing voting for citizens abroad. The article shows actions by representatives of foreign states bearing signs of election interference, which, in the authors' opinion, could have had a decisive impact on the final results. The authors emphasize the importance of ensuring and protecting the electoral sovereignty of the state and countering foreign interference, the need to develop international standards in the electoral sovereignty sphere aimed at excluding or minimizing external influence on the formation of the will of the people and its expression in free democratic elections.