A week after the general elections, following the preliminary announcement of the suspension of the results made by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), nobody knows who the winners of the recent elections in Guatemala are or will be.
By Ollantay Itzamná
Nine political parties requested the Constitutional Court (CC) to order the TSE to review the electoral records again. And so it was: the CC ordered the TSE “not to declare any winner” until it resolved the complaints filed.
At the moment, almost no one knows if the second round of elections will be held on the established date. The winners and their voters find themselves in a political electoral limbo.
On the night of 25 June, the TSE preliminarily announced that Sandra Torres of the National Unity of Hope (UNE) party and Bernardo Arévalo of the Semilla party will go to the second round of the presidential elections on 20 August. READ MORE