President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction for a onetime US ally who is currently serving a 45-year federal prison sentence.

Several candidates are vying to replace President Xiomara Castro, but concerns about voting process have caused tension.

Honduras’ homicide and unemployment rates have both improved during the past four years under outgoing President Xiomara Castro