The candidate who lost the elections a week ago in Guatemala by more than 874,000 votes, Sandra Torresdoes not accept the victory of Bernardo Arevalo de Leon. His party, the National Unity of Hope, filed a complaint this Friday with the Prosecutor’s Office in which he points out that there was “electoral fraud” because “the result was changed by changing the will of the people.” For this reason, he has asked the Supreme Electoral Tribunal not to make official the results in which his rival obtained 2.4 million votes, which represents more than 20 points ahead about towers. This is despite the fact that this week the hearings for the review of ballots by the Electoral Boards concluded without changing the data or discovering irregularities. For this reason, it is expected that next week they will become official so that Bernardo Arévalo can assume the presidency of the country on January 14, 2024.
Following the intentions of the Prosecutor’s Office and a judge to suspend the legal personality of the Seed Movement, Bernardo Arévalo has also denounced before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) the existence of two plans to assassinate him. The social democrat’s security team revealed to this Washington-based body that, since July 4, it had information about the so-called ‘Plan Colosio’, concocted by state agents and private individuals to kill Bernardo Arévalo. At least three sources within state institutions would have revealed this criminal intention when the current president-elect of Guatemala was listed as a favorite in the elections.
This is not the only attack designed to end the life of the future president. The same early Monday morning, when Bernardo Arévalo was celebrating his victory in a hotel in the Guatemalan capital, four prosecutors met with him to warn him that criminal gang structures were trying to kill him, for which they warned him to take security measures. that you consider relevant. At least 50 police officers will protect Bernardo Arévalo and the elected vice president, Karin Herrera.
The IACHR granted precautionary measures this Thursday in favor of the presidential couple, after warning that the State of Guatemala did not take seriously the first plan to assassinate the president-elect, to the point of questioning its existence, considering that there would not be a “actual threat”. However, the Extortion Prosecutor’s Office is already investigating the gang assassination plan.
Meanwhile, the Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office continues to annul the Movimiento Semilla with which Bernardo Arévalo won the elections, based on an investigation in which this party allegedly falsified the signature of 300 members to be able to establish itself, while registering 18 people who were already deceased. This week, the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI) sent Congress a copy of the official letter of Judge Seventh, Fredy Orellana, in which he ordered the suspension of this formation on July 12, despite the fact that the CC has already ruled that that was not possible until the electoral process was finished with the officialization of the results.