The leftist candidate of the Movimiento Semilla is emerging as the winner of the elections in Guatemala

2023-08-21 03:29:44

MADRID, 21 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The leftist candidate Bernardo Arévalo, of the Seed Movement, has emerged as the winner of the elections for the Presidency of Guatemala, with 59.7 percent of the votes, according to 84 percent of the votes counted.

Arévalo has received more than 2 million votes, while his rival, Sandra Torres, from the National Unity of Hope (UNE), has obtained 1.2 million ballots, which corresponds to 35.5 percent of the counted tally sheets. .

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has placed citizen participation at 44.1 percent, in elections marked by abstentionism in the face of the crisis that the country has been experiencing since the first round, when the Prosecutor’s Office tried to suspend the Seed Movement, and He registered the headquarters of both the political formation and the TSE.

These elections have acquired much greater relevance after Arévalo broke with all the forecasts -in some polls he was ranked eighth among the electorate’s preferences- by managing to advance to the second round. His message against corruption, democratic regression and the political class that has managed the country for decades ended up permeating a very discontent society.