2023-07-17 06:01:59
The former Heads of State and Government participating in the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) spoke out this Sunday, July 16, through a statement on the “serious” political situation that Guatemala is going through after the 2023 general elections.
They view with concern the suspension of the legal personality of the Seed Movement to stop the participation of the candidate Bernardo Arévalo in the ballot that will take place on August 20, which was later corrected by the Constitutional Court (CC) by suspending the judicial order that disabled the party.
The document is supported by 23 former heads of state and government from Spain, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia.
They include the names of Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque from Colombia, Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox from Mexico, José María Aznar from Spain, Mauricio Macri from Argentina, among other former state officials.
They also point to the attempt in Venezuela to prohibit the political participation of María Corina Machado by administratively disqualifying her. Also, that in Argentina the minister of justice decided to intervene the Institute for Strategic Security Studies (IEES) which is under the direction of the opposition presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich, with the intention of stopping the exercise of their political rights.
Given these facts, they refer in the document that they are forced “to denounce and make public emphasis on what is the peaceful doctrine of the Inter-American System of Human Rights and the express provision of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, namely, that the access and exercise of power has to conform to the Constitutional and Law State; which in itself proscribes any direct or indirect form of fraud or deviation in the application of the law to condition and mediate the free exercise of popular sovereignty”, says the statement.
In addition, they call for action by the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in accordance with the statutes that govern them.
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