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The Electoral Observation Mission of Guatemala (MOE-Gt) published a statement on July 4 in which it refers to the fact that respect for the popular will in the elections is imperative and mentions the risk of the comparison of records that will be carried out cape.
In the statement, the MOE-Gt refers to the new scrutiny review hearings, ordered by provisional amparo of the Constitutional Court (CC), and affirms that the comparison of records cannot and should not represent a door to violate the will popular expressed at the polls.
“The review hearings carried out in accordance with the Electoral and Political Parties Law (LEPP) and those ordered in the provisional amparo can only be carried out before the Vote Receiving Boards (JRV), with the legally established scope, in the presence of prosecutors. of the Political Organizations participating in the electoral contest. This process is transparent, participatory and impartial,” the statement read.
warn of risks
The document also mentions that as an electoral observation mission they warn of the risk that “actors or organizations dissatisfied with the results try to ignore the important role of the JRVs, weakening the participatory and democratic spirit of the Guatemalan electoral framework.”
He adds that according to his observation, from a random and representative sample of 1,200 JRVs, election day was fair, legal, and transparent.
“There was a plural party political representation (during the scrutiny, prosecutors were present in 99% of the JRVs), the challenges were reduced (they only happened in 7% of the JRVs, but no party challenged in more than 3.5% of these) and the results of the Preliminary Electoral Results Transmission system were consistent with our Parallel Tabulation of Electoral Results.
MOE-Gt Quick Count
On July 3, the MOE-Gt reported that despite the inconsistencies denounced by political parties in the June 25 general elections, the numerical projections of that mission show that the data from its tabulation coincide with the preliminary results it gave. to know the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in the election of president.
It was pointed out that the Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT), also known as quick count, is a methodology to monitor electoral processes that the MOE-Gt uses to carry out its own count at the national level and predict the range in which the official results should be.
Results of MOE-Gt and TSE
Sandra Torres from UNE
MOE-Gt 15.97% TSE 15.78%
Bernardo Arévalo, Seed Movement
MOE-Gt 11.73% TSE 11.80%
null vote
MOE-Gt 17.76% TSE 17.38%
The protection of the CC
On July 1, the Constitutional Court (CC) ordered that the vote count review hearings be repeated in the Departmental Electoral Boards of Guatemala and in the Central District.
The CC also referred to the Supreme Court of Justice, “for reasons of competence”, the filing of the appeal, so that it can be constituted as an Amparo court “so that it can continue with the process of constitutional guarantee requested.”
The minutes that have been questioned in Guatemala and the Central District must also be analyzed, leaving the possibility of a new “vote count” open.
The complaints maintain that there are more than a thousand altered records. This number of tally sheets represents 0.82% of the 121,227 processed (out of a total of 122,293) in the scrutiny, according to official figures.
Among the parties that filed the complaint on Friday, June 30, and that did not reach more than 8% of the preference are:
Change My Family Courage We Can Let’s Go I Think Cabal VOS Azul
Together with these, the UNE activated, despite the fact that its presidential candidate advanced to the ballot.
