The Guatemalan Congress refuses to invest the elected president born in Uruguay. The OAS and the European Union asked that the popular will be respected.
The presidential inauguration of Bernardo Arevalo in Guatemalascheduled for 4:00 p.m. in that country (7:00 p.m. Uruguay) is delayed because the Congress of the Republic refuses to invest him as presidentin a new attempt to prevent him from taking office, something that has already triggered several protests throughout the country.
The Guatemalan politician, who was born in Montevideo in 1958 and has the approval of the Uruguayan government, had to overcome various attempts by the Public ministry to remove him from power since June of last year, when the electoral process began.
Today, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union (EU) They urged the Guatemalan Congress to hand over power to the President elect, as “the constitution requires.” The Uruguayan Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the OASassured in his statement that “the Guatemalan people expressed their democratic will in fair, free and transparent elections.”
Arévalo, who had been designated as “the Uruguayan citizen” by his political adversaries, arrived this Sunday with a ruling from the Constitutional Courtthe highest court in the country, which indicates that his party, Seed Movementis “suspended” and that its 23 deputies must be “independent” for the period 2024-2028.
The suspension has its origins in an alleged case of false signatures that gave rise to the Semilla Movement in 2018. On September 1, Arévalo accused the Attorney General Consuelo Porras and also to criminal judge Fredy Orellanawho carried out the case, of attempting a “coup d’état” and preventing him from taking office.
In the last few hours, Arévalo stated through his abuses of power. The Guatemalan people and the international community are watching.”
Uruguay showed its support for Bernardo Arévalo
The elected president of Guatemala has the support of the Uruguayan government, who sent the interim chancellor Nicolás Albertoni representing the country for the transfer of command ceremony.
For his part, the former president José Mujica expressed in a letter addressed to Arévalo: “The people of Guatemala He honored you by appointing you as his representative. “Today you have to assume an enormous responsibility to represent them and recover the dignity of a beautiful nation that has historically been subsumed by inequality, violence and political instability.”
Source: Ambito
