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Juan Gerardo Guerrero Garnica, national prosecutor of the Seed Movement, assured in an interview for Living Aristegui What Guatemalan State Ministry interfered in the country’s elections through the
Juan Gerardo Guerrero Garnica, national prosecutor of the Seed Movement, assured in an interview for Living Aristegui What Guatemalan State Ministry interfered in the country’s elections through the Office of the Special Prosecutor to Combat Impunity (FECI)
This is after the Ministry of Public Information reported that the court empowered to suspend the legal personality of the Semilla Party for an alleged corruption case.
Prosecutor of the State Ministry of Guatemala, Rafael Curruchiche, who is under US sanctions in 2022 for creating false cases against former authorities, said the decision was related to a case called “Seed Corruption”for allegedly false signatures.
This suspension was called “illegal and arbitrary act” Guerrero Garnica because it violates Article 92 of the Guatemalan Electoral Law. This represents a “violation of the constitutional order,” he added.
Also, the constitutional lawyer pointed out that the suspension is “ironSo Semila and her presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo, cannot participate in the second round of elections, either by freezing party accounts and thereby making campaigns impossible, or simply completely eliminating the participation of the left political group.
“Next Scenario do not include seed movement“He said and added that in the medium term, the party can lose 23 representatives elected to the National Congress, three deputies to the Central American Parliament and councilors of municipal corporations.
In connection with the above, Guerrero Garnica shared that party legal team filed amparo for preventive purposes before the Constitutional Court.
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Minutes after the suspension ordered by the Ministry of Public Administration, the Supreme Electoral Court of Guatemala confirmed that “Seed” and “National Unity of Hope” parties – the parties that made it to the second round elections to determine the president.
Regarding the resolution of the Electoral Tribunal, Guerrero Garnica said: “We are observing very clear and strong position magistrates of the electoral tribunal. They decided that the Seed Movement should be in the second round.” He added that even the business chambers had expressed their opposition to the suspension.
The party’s national prosecutor considered that the fact that Semilla came in second in the first round of elections showed that the people of Guatemala are “fed up with illegal political-electoral networks and he saw Bernardo Arevalo as an option for a second democratic spring.”
“People of Guatemala woke up June 25“, he stressed.
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However, Guerrero Garnica believed that “dark forces” and parallel power structures” They refuse to allow Movimiento Semilla to run in elections, to defeat and remove these “corruption networks” from the government.
Finally, the party’s national prosecutor emphasized that Semilla was seeking “restore the social fabric and that the collective interest dominates private and false interests.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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