The Guatemalan prosecutor’s office assured this Friday that elections President-elect Bernardo Arevalo de Leon won this year. they are invalid for alleged administrative violations by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

The prosecutor’s office, which Arevalo de Leon accused last September of carrying out “coup d’etat” against himindicated that the election protocols used in the elections “void” because “they were not authorized” initially by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

Likewise, the prosecutor’s office opened a new case against Bernardo Arevalo and asked to be deprived of his immunity, as part of reports of attempts overturn your election victory August 20.

The prosecutor’s office, which has been criticized locally and internationally in recent months, assured that Arevalo de Leon committed a number of crimes provided for by the legal constitution and the financial management of his political party, Movimiento Semilla.

Since July 12 last year, the Prosecutor’s Office, headed by the Prosecutor General, Consuelo Porras Arguetaattempted to overturn the results of the elections held on June 25 in the first round and the second round on August 20.

In November, nearly thirty former Latin American presidents denounced the existence of “change in the constitutional system which seriously affects the democratic order,” given “Persecution and prosecution of the President and the country’s vice-president-elect Bernardo Arévalo de Leon and Karin Herrera, to whom they expressed their support.

This pursuit of the chosen couple has “repeated and obvious intention to interfere with the sovereign demonstration of the Guatemalans have already expressed themselves in free elections,” said former heads of state and government involved in the Democratic Initiative of Spain and America (IDEA group).

Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal concluded the electoral process in October. thereby making the results of the August election official.

With this decision, TSE dismissed a claim brought by several civil society organizations and some political parties that sought extend the election period until January 15, in order to prevent the prosecutor’s office from questioning Arevalo’s assumption of office.

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That’s why Arevalo and Vice President-elect Karin Herrera They are due to take office on January 14. as well as the rest of the elected officials if prosecutors’ efforts to overturn the Semilla movement ultimately prove unsuccessful.

The main instigators of this case, interrogated both in Guatemala and abroad, are the judge Fredy Orellana; anti-corruption prosecutor, Rafael Curruches; and the Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, including the last one in the list corrupt agents made by the United States.

(according to information from EFE)