Guatemalan prosecutor says election result invalid and OAS condemns ‘coup attempt’

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Telam – The Guatemalan Public Ministry announced today that the electoral records for the election won by Social Democrat Bernardo Arevalo are “null,” and therefore the result is invalid. Furthermore, he requested the withdrawal of immunity from the elected president, actions for which the Organization of American States condemned the “attempted coup.”

“The model established by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal was not used in the documents contained in the fourth record, and therefore all results of the 2023 general elections are invalid,” Deputy Public Prosecutor Leonor Morales said in a press conference. He announced a request for Arevalo’s impeachment. The Public Ministry (MP) considered that the final decision on the elections should be made by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, but hours later, the president of that body, Blanca Alfaro, stated that the results were “immutable” and that Arevalo and his elected vice president, President Karen Herrera, “have already received the credentials.” “The occasion” that proves that they are the next responsible people for the country.

However, Alfaro left open the possibility of the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest judicial body, making a decision on the elections. According to lawyer Morales, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal did not adhere to the security of the ballot boxes, allowing the election results to be changed by people with computer knowledge.

Morales warned in particular against reviewing the so-called Minutes No. 4, which are the same minutes that the deputy confiscated during his search last September, when he seized the boxes that contained them. The fourth record is the document in which the members of the vote-receiving committee manually write down the results of the vote count. It bears the signatures of the five members of the body (one for each electoral table) and the party inspectors.

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These transcripts are delivered to the clerk who scans them and sends them from the voting center to the central computing center to display the results. For legal purposes, the results are certified based on this record. 4. The Public Ministry’s press conference focused not only on the results of the June elections and the August second round, but also on the open investigation against the winning Semela movement for alleged election irregularities. Memberships and financing.

Prosecutor Rafael Corrochechi asked to withdraw immunity from Arevalo and Rep. Samuel Pérez, praised the “brave work” of his colleagues in the case, and even joked that he would have liked to have OAS Secretary-General Luis Almagro attend the press conference.

The Organization of American States shortly thereafter issued a statement condemning the actions and statements of Morales and Corochichi, which it warned “constitute a change in the country’s constitutional order, a violation of the rule of law and a violation of the human rights of the country’s population.” Their country.” He said, “We call on President Alejandro Giammattei, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Justice, and Congress to defend the country’s institutions and the constitutional order, and to take action against the perpetrators of this attack in order to preserve democracy in Guatemala.”