Global Courant
Given the silence of the magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the same citizens came out in defense of the electoral boards during the comparison of results ordered by the Constitutional Court through a strange provisional protection granted to a request presented by nine parties. Several interponents have already disassociated themselves from these, although that does not make them less co-responsible for the reprocessing generated, whether due to carelessness, weak leadership or stupidity useful to other agendas. The silence of the electoral magistrates, who had to warn prosecutors and parties that practically harassed the boards to pressure them to open the boxes with ballots, an act that would have put the integrity of the electoral process at risk, remains for historical scrutiny.
The members of the boards maintained their poise, and despite the fact that in some cases they even denounced the presence of armed individuals, they have the ethical certainty of fulfilling a civic service out of love for the country. They are volunteers with no party affiliation or any other conviction than that of receiving, ensuring and registering the votes that express the sovereign will deposited in the polls to give continuity to the democratic process, in order to designate the next edile, legislative authorities and the binomials that will pass to the ballot for the Presidency.
Abundant and unanimous have been the demands of students, professionals, former electoral magistrates, non-governmental organizations, business entities, analysis institutes, bishops, independent press and friendly countries to guarantee the continuity of the process of making official data and electoral second round within of the planned deadlines, in favor of the rule of law, institutional credibility and legal certainty.
With 83% of the records reviewed, corresponding to 20 of 24 departmental electoral boards that have completed the comparisons, the results are confirmed with very few variations. This demonstrates the reliability of the electoral system devised by the constitutionalists, a collegiate, collaborative and decentralized work, organized by levels: polling stations, coordination of centers, municipal and departmental boards, whose actions are observed by delegates of the parties in contention, who They must submit challenges within peremptory deadlines.
For this reason, the grima arises about claims made by parties whose prosecutors withdrew from some tables before the end of the vote count. The claims of supposed “fraud” are also being distorted, a heavy word that is reverted against whoever utters it without evidence. Perhaps for this reason, the plaintiffs have been falling under the provisional protection and the less they remain, the background is glimpsed.
Once the review hearings are concluded, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal must certify the results in accordance with current legislation, a power against which extemporaneous diatribes or sectarian interests of micro-parties clearly rejected by the citizens on June 25, which the sentenced to disappear and, therefore, lack representativeness. In any case, they should not blame the citizens, but exhume their strategies, review the inconsistencies of their figures and, above all, demonstrate the supposed values that they proclaim. Only citizenship protects citizenship is an axiom whose validity is endorsed thanks to the integrity of the electoral boards: a bastion of democracy because it ensures the decision of the Guatemalans, by the Guatemalans and for the Guatemalans.
Reviews confirm clean joint work
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