GUATEMALA CITY, Dec 19 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Protesters will begin a new march in the capital of Guatemala in defense of the results of the elections last June and August.
Indigenous organizations and groups joining the peaceful resistance support the arrival of Bernardo Arévalo to presidency on Jan 14 in the face of the maneuvers promoted by the Public Ministry (MP).
The indigenous authorities, who have been standing up for just over 70 days against the actions of the Prosecutor’s Office, which aims to derail the electoral process, called for a new mobilization.
The protesters demand the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras and insist on rejecting those who build cases seeking to overturn the elections.
“We are not going to play a game in which we try to doubt the honorableness of the people who counted the votes,” stressed the president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Blanca Alfaro, who confirmed that the results of the votes validated, are official and unalterable. She also recalled the protection granted by the Constitutional Court to guarantee alternation in the exercise of power.
Local and international organizations agree that the next four weeks, until the change of Government, will be critical in this country.
The mobilizations began on Oct 2. To date, various delegations and caravans belonging to ancestral communities from different territories take 24-hour turns in front of the MP. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA