GUATEMALA CITY, May 11 (NNN-CARIBBEANNEWS) — The electoral observation mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) returned to Guatemala for a preliminary visit ahead of the June 16 elections.
This is the second time that the mission is in Guatemala before the general deployment, which will begin June 5.
In the coming days, the chief of the mission, former president of Costa Rica Luis Guillermo Solis, will meet with electoral authorities, the government, the supreme court, the constitutional court, candidates and other actors, in order to learn their impressions about the electoral process.
The mission will request meetings with all the candidates and political actors.
In a tweet, last month secretary-general of OAS, Luis Almagro, called for “transparent” Guatemalan elections “without influences or external factors, including from International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).”
The June 16 election is the 19th that the OAS observes in Guatemala since the first one, which occurred in 1970.
And since 1962, the OAS has deployed over 240 electoral observation missions (OAS/EOMs) in 27 countries throughout the continent. — NNN-CARIBBEANNEWS
