Neither the judicial persecution that threatens to suspend the legal personality of the Seed Movement, nor the black campaign of its rival, Sandra Torrespropagating lies, has been able to overcome the desire for change in the Guatemalan population that has bet in the elections this Sunday for the candidate of the Seed Movement, Bernardo Arevalo de Leonwhose priority is to get the country out of the “swamp of corruption.”
Arévalo de León swept the elections after defeating the conservative candidate of the National Union of Hope, Sandra Torres, who did not convince the voters with her repeated speech in defense of the family between a man and a woman, her frontal opposition to abortion and sexual diversity and his promise of solidarity bags of food and economic aid of all kinds for disadvantaged families in a country where six out of ten people suffer from poverty or extreme poverty.
The candidate of the social democratic party Movimiento Semilla, Bernardo Arévalo de León, will become the new president on January 14, 2024 of Guatemala after defeating the conservative candidate in the second round of the elections held this Sunday in the country. Thus, according to the data offered by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), with 98% of the polling stations counted, Arévalo de León has achieved 58.5% of the votes (2.4 million), compared to 36.6% de Torres (1.5 million), who has suffered his third consecutive defeat after losing the 2015 and 2019 elections against Jimmy Morales and the current president Alejandro Giammattei.
Among the promises of the future president, it stands out that will fight frontally against corruption in the Government, which has impeded the country’s development in recent decades, causing endemic poverty, as well as high rates of violence with more than 3,000 crimes per year. Another consequence of public money not reaching the population is that one in two children under the age of five suffers from malnutrition in the Central American country, which has already caused 23 deaths so far this year.
Despite the fact that in the first electoral round Torres led Arévalo de León by 227,000 votes, on this occasion the candidate of the Seed Movement has reversed the result and has surpassed it by almost a million votes thus becoming the third candidate for president in the history of Guatemala to reverse this situation.