Former first lady and candidate for the National Unity of Hope party Sandra Torres is set to face off in a second round on August 20 with centre-left lawmaker Bernardo Arévalo, who ran on an anti-corruption platform. / Photo: Reuters Archive
The court said on Saturday that it would suspend election processes in the Central American country until the ballots are reviewed, acting at the request of Sandra Torres' National Unity of Hope party, President Alejandro Giammattei's Vamos party and several allied groups. Torres took 15.8 percent of the vote in the June 25 round, with Arevalo close behind with 11.8 percent. Some analysts expect Arevalo to win the runoff due to Torres' unpopularity in the voter-dense capital, Guatemala City.Arevalo said he would ask Guatemala's electoral court to annul the top court's decision, which he described as lacking legal merit and dangerous to the electoral process.
"We can't let the same old parties, frustrated and disappointed by their poor results in the first round, tarnish and call into question the free decision of thousands of Guatemalans," he said in a video on social media.
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