International

Guatemala: Protest against attempt to reverse election results

Photo: EFE

November 22 |

Guatemalans demonstrated this Tuesday in caravans of vehicles that departed from the west of the country and reached the center of Guatemala City (capital), to protest against the coup attempts to reverse the results of the past presidential elections.

“We, as ancestral authorities, have come to claim the collective right and the individual right of our peoples (…) We are here, but not to defend a political party or the elected presidential binomial. We are here to defend the democracy of our country”, said one of the leaders of the indigenous organizations in front of the crowd gathered in the Historic Center.

On November 16, the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) requested the withdrawal of the immunity of president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his vice-president, Karin Herrera. According to the MP, both are accused of committing crimes against national patrimony. Since then, protests were called by indigenous organizations and the transport union.

In spite of the fact that the police had been notified in advance of the call for protests, they detained at a checkpoint of the National Civil Police several people, mainly cab drivers, who were on their way to the protests in their vehicles.

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A few days ago, the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, said he was “alarmed” by the most recent actions of the Guatemalan Attorney General’s Office and called on the current authorities “to guarantee that the democratic will expressed at the ballot box is respected”.

The president-elect has warned that the country’s attorney general, Consuelo Porras, is trying to carry out a “coup d’état” against him. The objective is that the candidate will not be sworn in on January 14, the day of the inauguration.

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“We must act. We must pressure. We must push Russia towards real peace, which is only achievable through strength,” he added.

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