Guatemala's top court overturns ban on presidential candidate

Guatemala City, Jul 13 (EFE).- The Constitutional Court, Guatemala’s highest tribunal, quashed on Thursday a ruling by a lower court blocking one of the two contenders from taking part in next month’s presidential runoff. The judges granted a motion filed by attorneys for the social-democratic Semilla party, whose candidate, lawmaker Bernardo Arevalo de Leon, finished …

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