2023 Guatemala General Elections - June 25th (2nd Round: August 20th)
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« Reply #50 on: December 18, 2023, 10:06:32 AM »

Guatemala’s top court orders Congress to ‘guarantee’ president-elect Arevalo's inauguration
Guatemala's top court on Thursday ordered Congress to "guarantee" the swearing-in of president-elect Bernardo Arevalo, after accepting an appeal against efforts by the prosecutor's office aimed at preventing him from assuming power on January 14.
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« Reply #51 on: December 18, 2023, 03:27:38 PM »

Exactly what alternative does the Guatemalan establishment have to place into the presidency? Torres?

I don’t understand why they would be so desperate to cling onto power when they would better be able to just cause gridlock in the legislature.



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« Reply #52 on: January 14, 2024, 05:09:36 PM »

Today's Bernardo Árevalo sworn-in as President of Guatemala, but even at the last minute, the "deep state" still try to postpone his swearing-in as long as possible. Just today, a few hours after his inauguration, the Constitutional Court (highest court) has made effective the suspension of the SEMILLA Movement's registration as a political party, causing its elected deputies to be considered independent and cannot form a parliamentary group or be part of of the Congress Bureau, this has caused delays in the installation of the new Congress and there have been protests by pro-Democracy protesters in the vicinity of Congress. Right at this time Árevalo was supposed to be sworn in, but it has been delayed, there are several Latin American presidents as well as the King of Spain attending the inauguration.






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« Reply #53 on: January 14, 2024, 07:20:50 PM »

Who within congress besides Semilla is even with accepting an Arevalo presidency?
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« Reply #54 on: January 14, 2024, 11:23:23 PM »
« Edited: January 14, 2024, 11:36:11 PM by MRCVzla »

White smoke at Congress' installation, after hours and hours and despite all their 23 MPs sworn-in as independents (plus 2 pro-Árevalo MPs from UNE), Semilla got the Speaker post, and the party finally formed their own caucus, with more than 6 hours of delay seems the Árevalo-Herrera sworn-in will finally happen, prior of this, the Foreign Affairs Ministers (or "chancellors") present at the inauguration as well EU High Representative Borrell or OAS Secretary Almagro express their preocupation for the delays and the state of democracy after today' events. Even the Constitutional Court (who earlier suspended Semilla' party register) notified the Congress would violate the law if the delays continued.



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« Reply #55 on: January 15, 2024, 01:26:14 AM »
« Edited: January 15, 2024, 01:35:00 AM by MRCVzla »

After midnight (local time), Bernardo Arévalo de León has finally sworn-in as the 52° President of Guatemala for the term 2024-2028. Former President Alejandro Giammattei was absent and prior to the ceremony he handed over the symbols of the presidency (he and his outgoing VP were elected anyway as Members of PARLACEN btw).
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« Reply #56 on: January 16, 2024, 10:27:30 PM »

Thank you Brandon for standing up for freedom and democracy in Latin America!

https://www.persuasion.community/p/guatemala-just-ran-january-6th-in

Guatemala Just Ran January 6th In Reverse
It’s the most successful pro-democracy movement of the 21st century. So why has nobody heard of it?

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Amid a million stories of democratic backsliding everywhere from Hungary to India, from Israel to America itself, here’s this tiny poor country showing us the way regular people, indigenous people, can fight back against the enemies of democracy and win. It sounds like a movie. But it’s real.

And yet, the average American who follows the news probably heard about none of it. No one is putting little Guatemalan flags in their social media handles. Unless you were out specifically looking for Guatemala news, the story just passed you by.

Why? It’s a question that has stalked me for months, as Guatemala’s democratic movement beat back one authoritarian power grab after another. How could international public opinion sleepwalk through all this drama? Shouldn’t the world’s democrats be hungry for a feel-good story like this one?

Well, nobody much cares about Guatemala at the best of times. It may be the most populous nation in Central America, but with everything else going on in the world right now it’s just never going to grab people’s attention to the same extent as, say, Ukraine.

But I don’t think that’s the whole story. I have other theories. And they’re bleak.

Fatally for Guatemala’s democrats, Joe Biden supported them. Loudly. He mobilized America’s diplomatic weight behind them. He made it perfectly clear that if Bernardo Arévalo, the president-elect, didn’t get sworn in there would be major consequences. Guatemala’s business sector got the message, and the organization that brings together the owners of its biggest companies fell in line behind Arévalo. They may not be thrilled to have the center left in power, but better that than U.S. sanctions.

Bizarrely, this probably meant that neither America’s loud online left nor its reactionary Republican right could get behind the Guatemalan democracy movement. The left could never back a movement supported by Guatemala’s business sector because it was supported by Guatemala’s business sector. The right could never support a movement supported by Guatemala’s indigenous movement because it was supported by Guatemala’s indigenous movement. Neither could work up any warm feelings for a movement supported by Joe Biden because it was supported by Joe Biden.

The most daring, successful movement in the defense of democracy our hemisphere has seen in ages just pulled off the almost impossible feat of dislodging one of the world’s most entrenched and most corrupt regimes peacefully, through the ballot box… and everyone found a reason to sleep right through it.

It was sad, really, to see so much of international public opinion miss the boat on perhaps the most hopeful political story of the 2020s so far. Whether we noticed or not, Guatemala just gave the world a masterclass on what it takes to defend democracy in the 21st century.
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« Reply #57 on: January 19, 2024, 12:42:23 AM »

Constitutional Court has ruled against Semilla again after opponents sued over the composition of Congressional leadership. Independents aren’t permitted to be members of the Junta Directiva, so the CC has ordered a repeat of leadership elections. Samuel Pérez Álvarez has accepted the ruling and will step aside pending the repeat election tomorrow (last time’s loser Sandra Jovel, foreign minister under Jimmy Morales, won’t run again after a collapse in support, and Semilla is expected to be able to keep its coalition together).
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« Reply #58 on: January 20, 2024, 07:34:08 PM »

Just to give a last update, yesterday was the repeat election of the Congress board after the CC rulling and with the Semilla MPs accepting being designated as independents. Nery Ramos, a former director of the National Civil Police between 2015-2018 and MP for the AZUL party is the new President of the Congress with the same party alliance who supported the brief Semilla-led board (now expanded to 115 votes for), including some rebel MPs of the Sandra Torres' UNE who seems to have some internal crisis between her leader and the parliamentary caucus who is open to work with President Arévalo.
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