The Prosecutor’s Office Guatemala delivered this Monday to Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) a report of a questioned investigation into alleged anomalies for which it considers “void” the elections won by the opponent Bernardo Arevalo.
On Friday, the Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had detected irregularities in the vote counting of the first electoral round in June, but the president of the TSE, Blanca Alfaronoted that same day that the results of the elections “they are unalterable” and that Arévalo must assume power on January 14.
“The Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity sent to the Presiding Magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunalthe investigation that the prosecutor’s office has developed in criminal matters, so that after the analysis, they can adopt the decision they consider appropriate”said the entity on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, there were a series of anomalies in the final minutes of the closing of scrutiny in the elections of president, vice president, deputies, corporations and deputies to the Central American Parliament.
However, USAthe General Secretariat of the OAS and the High Commissioner of the UN for Human Rights criticized the attempts of the Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office to undermine the results of the elections.
The questioned head of the prosecutor’s office against Impunity, Rafael Curruchicheassured on Friday that all “The information that was recorded in the closing ceremony and scrutiny at all vote receiving boards should be annulled.”.
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“We are facing an absurd, ridiculous, and perverse coup d’état. The coup plotters are doing drowning kicks“Arévalo said on Friday when reacting to the Prosecutor’s Office announcement.
Arévalo, a 65-year-old sociologist, maintains that the Prosecutor’s Office seeks to prevent him from assuming power on January 14, since powerful traditional political sectors fear his promise of a frontal fight against corruption.
This Monday the United States announced visa restrictions on some 300 Guatemalans, including a hundred deputies, and condemned attempts to “undermine” democracy on the part of the Prosecutor’s Office.
