Guatemala: Guatemalan prosecutor declares presidential election void | EUROtoday

The public prosecutor’s workplace Guatemalas has declared the nation’s final presidential election “null and void.” Prosecutor Leonor Morales cited alleged administrative irregularities within the closing depend of the primary spherical of the election as the rationale.

The Organization of American States (OAS) condemned the feedback as an “attempted coup.” The try to annul the election represented “the worst form of dismantling of democracy” and the “perpetuation of a political fraud against the will of the people,” she mentioned.

The group known as on outgoing President Alejandro Giammattei, the constitutional and supreme courts, and parliament to “defend the country’s institutions and constitutional order.”

The left-wing candidate Bernardo Arévalo emerged because the winner of the election in August with a transparent majority of votes. Arévalo spoke out in favor of combating corruption throughout the election marketing campaign. He is scheduled to take workplace on January 14th.

Since his shock victory, Arévalo has confronted quite a lot of authorized challenges. These embrace makes an attempt to droop his political occasion and forestall him from seizing energy.

One of essentially the most corrupt nations on this planet

Guatemala belongs, in response to the group Transparency International among the many most corrupt nations on this planet.