Guatemala. Today the stage of the electoral campaigns of the second round to elect president ended in a day in which the clash of government and justice institutions kept the political environment in a roller coaster environment.
Since Thursday and this morning, the questioned Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (FECI) and the Constitutional Court redoubled maneuvers to derail the possible arrival of a president from outside the power clans that have always governed this country, Bernardo Arévalo.
In the presence of more than 1,500 electoral observers from the Organization of American States, the European Union and the Guatemala Observation Mission who have expressed “concern” about the actions of the prosecution, the efforts to cancel the Movimiento Semilla party, leading In the elections, it went so far as to even anticipate legal proceedings against members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
At night, a communiqué from the Supreme Court of Justice, announcing that it was granting a definitive protection to the MS, returned the blow to the head of the FECI, Rafael Curruchiche.
