Q24N - Bernardo Arévalo and the Semilla Movement won the last elections in Guatemala widely and cleanly. On August 20, in the second electoral round, Arévalo and Semilla achieved 60.90% of the votes, compared to 39.10% for Sandra Torres of the Unidad Nacional de Esperanza party (UNE) - National Unity of Hope party. In the June…
Guatemala City, Jul 21 (EFE).- Guatemala’s center-left Semilla party said Friday that prosecutors’ efforts to prevent their candidate from taking part in the Aug. 20 presidential runoff amounts to a “technical coup d’etat.” “The Attorney General’s Office is acting outside the constitutional legal framework,” Semilla’s lawyer, Juan Guerrero, told reporters as AG Office agents searched …
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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 …