{"id":234915,"date":"2023-08-29T14:32:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=234915"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:32:47","slug":"guatemala-electoral-body-suspends-party-of-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=234915","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala electoral body suspends party of president-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2023\/08\/29\/image-144414-1693288647.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Guatemala&#8217;s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) suspended the political party of president-elect Bernardo Arevalo on Monday while also affirming his victory in the Aug 20 vote, a resolution from the body said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move is unlikely to impact Arevalo&#8217;s swearing in as president on Jan 14 but unless resolved it could limit his party&#8217;s ability to preside over committees in Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A TSE resolution said Arevalo&#8217;s Movimiento Semilla, or Seed Movement, political party had been provisionally suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arevalo, a 64-year-old sociologist and former diplomat, had campaigned against government corruption by the political establishment, a message that resonated with voters seeking fresh faces in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the vote, he accused authorities of political persecution, after prosecutors tried to suspend Semilla and ordered raids against his party offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the first round of voting on June 25, Guatemalan judge Fredy Orellana, at the request of prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche &#8212; both on a US list of &#8220;corrupt actors&#8221; &#8212; ordered the electoral court to suspend Semilla amid an investigation into alleged anomalies in its registration as a party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court did not comply with the judge&#8217;s order, saying a party could not be suspended in the middle of the election, which went to a run-off on Aug 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the election over, however, authorities complied with Orellana&#8217;s order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the party of Sandra Torres, who came in second in the runoff, has alleged fraud in the August vote which saw her defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But TSE Secretary General Mario Velasquez said in a news conference Monday that Arevalo&#8217;s triumph was legal and that he would take office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arevalo is set to succeed outgoing President Alejandro Giammettei, ending 12 years of right-wing rule. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Guatemala&#8217;s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) suspended the political party of president-elect Bernardo Arevalo on Monday while also affirming his victory in the Aug 20 vote, a resolution from the body said. The move is unlikely to impact Arevalo&#8217;s swearing in as president on Jan 14 but unless resolved it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234917,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234915\/revisions\/234917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}