The Guatemalan prosecutor’s office declared the election null and void

The Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) of Guatemala assures that the elected president, Bernardo Arévalo de León, won the elections this year. They are invalid due to alleged administrative irregularities of the Supreme Electoral Court.

Prosecutors, who accused Arévalo de León last September of staging a “coup d’état” against him, indicated that electoral rolls used in the elections are “null and void” since they were “not authorized” initially by the Supreme Electoral Court.

The alleged annulment of the election results presented at the press conference by prosecutor Leonor Morales, who He said that the elections for the president, deputies, mayor and members of the Central American parliament must be annulled.

Morales cited this as the alleged reason for the annulment of the election There is an administrative irregularity as the election records used were not originally approved by the Supreme Electoral Court.

“The formats used were not those approved by the plenary session of the judges,” said Morales, who added that the votes “they are void.”

The lawyer and elected representative of the Semilla Movement, Andrea Zeceñahe warned on his social networks that the Ministry of Public Affairs “does not have any authority” to declare the elections null and void.

He The Supreme Electoral Court of Guatemala guaranteed the victory of Bernardo Arévalo de León as presidentdespite the fact that the State Ministry declared the elections “void” due to alleged administrative irregularities.

The president of the electoral court, Blanca Alfaro, indicated at the press conference that the election results were signed and certified, although she noted that A different ruling by the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, could overturn his decision.

“There is absolutely no time to repeat any choices in any way“, added the president of the Guatemalan Supreme Electoral Court.

Alfaro explained that it is The State Ministry has the right to conduct “investigations”, but they do not imply the annulment of the election and also defended the transparency of the process.

“I don’t have to defend the election results. We have already signed them,” explained Alfaro.

Asked if a coup d’état is happening in Guatemala, the judge replied that she was repeating “like the Stoics: one day at a time, and at this moment” The elected authorities “are ready to take office on January 14”, including the “presidential duo”.

However, the judge explained it The only body that has the ability to annul the elections would be the Constitutional Courtthe highest court of the Central American country.

At the same press conference, Prosecutors also charged Aréval de León with alleged illegalities in the 2018 founding of his party.with an alleged case of money laundering.

The The accusations are a new attempt by the Public Ministry, led by Attorney General Consuelo Porras, to overturn the election results. in favor of Aréval de León, who surprisingly won the elections held this year.

Arévalo de León warned on September 1 that Porras was carrying out a “coup d’état” against him to prevent him from taking office on January 14, replacing incumbent Alejandro Giammattei.

The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) he condemned the “attempted coup by the Guatemalan Ministry of State” over the attempt by prosecutors Rafael Curruchiche and Leonor Morales to annul the country’s general elections.

In a press release from the office of the general secretary of the organization, Luis Almagro, asked the country’s president, Alejandro Giammattei; the Constitutional Court; To the Supreme Court of Justice and the Congress to act against the “perpetrators of this attack” to “defend the institutions and constitutional order”.