Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is calling for a democratic transition of power to anti-corruption campaigner and president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his party Seed Movement, which have faced waves of legal attacks in attempts to block his rise to power.
Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei stated on Tuesday that the country was on track for an "orderly and transparent transition" of power after the presidential election.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is calling for a democratic transition of power to anti-corruption campaigner and president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his party Seed Movement, which have faced waves legal attacks in attempts to invalidate his rise to power. Giammattei's statement Tuesday comes after a night of electoral political chaos in the Central American nation following one of its most tumultuous elections in recent history. Hours before the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal certified late Monday that Arévalo won this month’s presidential runoff election, the countrys electoral registry suspended his party from all political activities. The Seed Movement party has asked the country’s top electoral authority to lift the suspension, saying it was illegal.