Global Courant
The Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) of the Organization of American States (OAS) announced that, following the resolution of the Constitutional Court of July 1, which suspended the assignment of positions and ordered the scrutiny review, decided to “deploy again in Guatemala.”
The decision is made, said the international organization, “within the framework of the agreement signed with the TSE -Supreme Electoral Tribunal-“. He also pointed out that his observers have constantly monitored what happened after the elections were held and the mission considers it “of vital importance that the popular will expressed at the polls be respected.”
“For this reason, a technical team made up of observers, observers and specialists in electoral organization and technology, will be traveling to Guatemala. The Mission will be present at the new ballots and will continue to collect relevant information, ahead of the second presidential round on August 20,” he added in a statement.
This decision comes a day after the mission criticized the “extreme judicialization” of the electoral process in Guatemala, noting that “elections must be won at the polls” and not “by challenging legitimate results.”
On Saturday, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, suspended making the electoral results official until complaints of alleged irregularities raised by nine political parties are investigated.
One of those parties is the National Unity of Hope (UNE), whose candidate, former first lady Sandra Torres, will face the candidate of the Seed Movement, Bernardo Arévalo, in the second round on August 20, who gave the surprise in the first round. lap.
The second position of the Semilla candidate was not in the polls released in recent weeks, since they placed him in eighth place in the presidential race.
Arévalo de León warned last Friday that his “advance”, unexpected, “awakened the fear of the corrupt.”
The decision of the high judicial forum arose after a request from nine parties of the country’s traditional politics that allege that before adjudicating the charges, the minutes of the June 25 vote should be reviewed again.
There are no precedents in the history of the Guatemalan elections where the results are frozen by a court in the absence of defining the authorities that will lead the country between 2024 and 2028.
