GUATEMALA CITY.- The left one president chosen by GuatemalaBernardo Arévalo, begins 2024 with two issues on his agenda: preparing to take office on January 14 and anticipating attempts to prevent him from doing so with legal measures.
Arévalo, winner of the August 20 presidential election, faces legal proceedings brought by prosecutors against him, his party and the electoral process itself over alleged irregularities in the transfer of power. International organizations and countries such as the USA reject the investigations by the Guatemalan authorities on the grounds that they aim to “destabilize democracy”.
Arévalo admitted that the days before Inauguration He will continue to take legal action against what he says is “corrupt political persecution by the State Department.”
The final test of the transfer of power will come in less than two weeks, with the precedent being that outgoing President Alejandro Giammattei has vowed to leave office. But first he must appear on January 10 before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), which urges respect for democracy, and present his version of the crisis facing the country.
If everything ends as the law foresees, with the inauguration of the new president, January 14th in Guatemala will mark the climax of a year of electoral fears marked by political unrest and uncertainty.
However, in parallel, the public prosecutor's office has not stopped its claims against the election actors and its investigations into alleged election fraud and fraud in the purchase of the computer system that enabled rapid vote counting.
At the request of the State Department, the plenary session of Congress on the last day of November lifted the immunity of the election judges and they left the country.
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SPRING: With information from AP