Elected President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arevalo de Leon left for the United States on Monday evening. to resume a North American work tour that he suspended on Sunday.

Arevalo de Leon flew to the United States, accompanied by a deputy Samuel Perez Alvarez, as confirmed by the agency EFE Source from both parties, Movimiento Semilla.

The elected President of Guatemala had started on September 29 a working trip during which he visited Mexico and the USA. He met with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador last Saturday to begin “outlining lines of bilateral cooperation,” in a meeting he called “excellent.”

However, on October 1, Arevalo de Leon momentarily suspended his trip and returned to Guatemala before raid of the prosecutor’s office (prosecutor’s office) on the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the last one is September 30th.

The President-elect and Perez Alvarez will conclude their working trip to Washington with various meetings with local officials, as well as Organization of American States (OAS).

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Arevalo de Leon He won the presidential election on August 20. and will lead the country for four years, starting January 14, 2024.

The authorities did not detail the case in which the Supreme Electoral Tribunal was raided on Friday and Saturday because The prosecutor’s office said that they are in “judicial reserve”a measure that limits access to information about a process.

On September 1, the president-elect accused Attorney General Consuelo Porras of carry out a “coup d’etat” against him, a point that Arevalo de Leon has confirmed in recent days.

Thousands of Guatemalans They demonstrated this very Monday in various parts of the country to demand the resignation of Porras.

(EFE)