Guatemala: President-elect affirms that the Prosecutor’s Office has no credibility after an attempt to annul the elections

The elected president of GuatemalaBernardo Arévalo de León, assured this Friday that the Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) of the Central American country “has no credibility”, and that the new accusations against him raised today by that body are “absurd and ridiculous.”

Arévalo de León’s statements took place at a press conference after the Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the elections held this year and in which won with 58% of the votesmust be annulled due to alleged administrative irregularities of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

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“It is time to vigorously defend our voice and the possibility of building a different country. “No one should come between the people of Guatemala and their spring”stressed Arévalo de León.

In the same sense, the 64-year-old academic said that “The attempted coup d’état is real and has brought us to a crucial moment in the history of our country”.

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The accusations from the Prosecutor’s Office this Friday also pointed to Arévalo de León for an alleged case of money laundering, among other crimes.

“The Prosecutor’s Office has no credibility and is dedicated to lying”stated Arévalo de León, who described the accusations against him as “absurd” and “ridiculous”. “We have won the elections and we will take office on January 14”he added.

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Despite the accusation of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Guatemalan Supreme Electoral Court ratified this Friday the electoral results that accredit Arévalo de León as the winner.

However, the president of the court, Blanca Alfaro, stressed that a ruling by the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, could reverse the electoral result.

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Arévalo de León won the second round of the elections on August 25 with almost a million votes ahead of his rival, former first lady Sandra Torres Casanova.

The president-elect had already warned since September 1 that the Public Ministry, led by the attorney general, Consuelo Porras, is carrying out a “coup” against him.