Guatemala body certifies Arevalo victory, hours after party suspended
Al JazeeraThe suspension plunged the centre-left politician’s presidency into uncertainty even before it’s officially begun. Guatemala’s top electoral tribunal has declared Bernardo Arevalo the winner of the country’s presidential elections but his presidency was plunged into uncertainty even before it had officially begun after another government body suspended his Seed Movement party. Officials from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Monday confirmed Arevalo as the winner and were then confronted with questions about a document from the electoral registry published in the media that ordered a temporary suspension of Seed’s legal registration. The electoral registry moved to suspend Seed after the attorney general’s office opened an investigation into the party over alleged irregularities in the gathering of signatures for its formation. Earlier this week, the Organization of American States’s human rights commission asked that Guatemala provide protection for Arevalo after reports emerged of a possible plot to kill him.