2023-08-21 04:07:20
Bernardo Arévalo becomes the new president of Ecuador. Photo: composition LR/AFP/EFE
The diplomat and sociologist Bernardo Arévalo has become the new president of Guatemala after winning the 2023 general elections together with the left-wing political group Seed Movement. In this way, he will direct the Central American nation of more than 17 million people, for the period 2024-2028.
Counted 90% of the votes, arevalo de leon adds a total of 2.2 million ballots in his favor, which represents 59% of the total, while Torres Casanova records 1.3 million votes received (35%).
Bernardo Arévalo accompanies his mother to vote. Photo: Bernardo Arévalo/Twitter
Who is Bernardo Arévalo, the first progressive president of Guatemala?
He Supreme Electoral Tribunal The Guatemalan government will make official in the next few hours the result that will allow Arévalo de León to be sworn in on January 14 for a period of four years, replacing the current president, Alejandro Giammattei.
According to experts, this is the most controversial election in Guatemala since the establishment of democracy in 1986, due to the high levels of prosecution and the intervention led by the Prosecutor’s Office, headed by prosecutors sanctioned for corruption by the State Department of the United States. Joined.
Bernardo Arevalo He was born in Uruguay, Montevideo, during his parents’ exile, and returned to Guatemala in 2013. He served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and was his country’s ambassador to Spain. He is the son of the president Juan Jose Arevalo (1945-1951).
Without blemishes in his political career and with a broadly conciliatory character, arevalo de leon He comes to the Presidency after a surprise first electoral round on June 25, when he slipped into second place while the polls placed him in seventh or eighth place.
The polls, however, were not wrong this Sunday, since the candidate of the political group Seed Movement he outvoted his opponent, former first lady Sandra Torres Casanova, by a wide margin of votes.
Arévalo, who is currently a congressman, came to the runoff driven by a solid urban vote, with the promise of fighting corruption in the Central American country and the intention of emulating his father’s presidency.
The Public Ministry, whose leadership is sanctioned by USAundertook since July 12 several attempts to suspend the Seed Movement due to an alleged case of false signatures in the party during its creation in 2018.
In the next few days, arrests could be made against party members, so political analysts do not rule out that there are strong attempts to prevent Arévalo de León from being sworn in next January, according to the same Prosecutor’s Office.
Since the establishment of democracy in Guatemala in 1986, all of its presidents have been conservative in nature, with a broad leaning to the right on the political spectrum.
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