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With more than 95% of the ballots counted, anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo, from the progressive Movimiento Semilla party, appeared to have won Guatemala’s presidential election on Sunday, beating former first lady Sandra Torres by 59.1% to 36.1% of votes cast.
Guatemalans head to the polls Sunday to cast their vote in a presidential run-off election that many hope will reverse democratic backsliding under recent administrations. Recent polls have predicted Bernardo Arevalo, a progressive candidate running on an anti-graft message, will trounce establishment figure and former first lady Sandra Torres. Guatemala's new president will assume power as violence and food insecurity roil the country, triggering fresh waves of migration.
Progressive candidate Bernardo Arevalo faces former First Lady Sandra Torres in run-off vote.
The U.S. State Department, on July 19, updated its list of corrupt and anti-democratic actors to include the judge who issued an illegal order to suspend a progressive political party in Guatemala’s recent presidential election.
The State Department warns that it ‘will consider all available tools to deter and disrupt anti-democratic activity’ in Central American countries