New President of Guatemala Bernardo Arevalo de Leon will be invested this Sunday after winning the 2023 elections with an anti-corruption speech and high expectations from the population that elected him.

The day before, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala accepted the president-elect’s request for protection to avoid lawsuits that violate their right to a preliminary trial before taking office.

The court accepted this appeal on the grounds that This prevents your immunity from being affected.according to the newspaper Free press in its digital edition.

The court judges urgently met on Saturday to study the presented means of protection regarding the transfer of command between outgoing President Alejandro Giammattei and Arevalo himself.

So they also plan to study amparos submitted by two elected deputies from the Semilla movement led by Arevalo after the Permanent Congress Commission decided to suspend their activities, despite the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) informing them that the party was still active and valid.

Arevalo’s discovery will take place this Sunday amid great uncertainty due to speculation about legal action and even the absence of deputies to, in their opinion, avoid a transfer of power.

This Saturday Arevalo met with King Felipe VI of Spain. who came to the country to attend the inauguration.

For his part, the President of Colombia Gustavo Petro On social media, he called on other leaders to attend Arevalo’s inauguration ceremony. “I ask all heads of state of the American republics to attend the inauguration of President Arevalo in Guatemala. There are forces threatening a coup d’etat. Our solidarity is fundamental. To everyone: do not give up on the democratic struggle of the Guatemalan people. Personally, I will go to the Republic of Guatemala,” he explained.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Alicia Bárcena thanked Petro for this position: although President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will not attend the dedication ceremony due to scheduling issues. “We will definitely be there, thank you for warning us, Gustavo Petro. Hope to see you soon,” Barcena wrote on her X account in response to Petro’s message.

The president-elect promised the arrival of “new spring” similar to that led by the government of his father, Juan José Arevalo Bermejo, between 1946 and 1951 in one of the most developed administrations in the Central American country.

Arevalo de Leon has noted in recent days thatA “new chapter in the history” of Guatemala opens and that starting this Sunday, “we will begin the transformation of our great country.”

His rise to power was marked prosecution by the Prosecutor’s Office (Prosecutor’s Office) of Guatemala, who has been trying to overturn the election results since July last year.

However, Arévalo de Leon and his party, the Semilla Progressive Movement, managed to stay on their feet and everything points to them taking office this Sunday. as established by Guatemalan law.

The investment ceremony will be attended by at least 8 heads of state, including King Felipe VI of Spain and President of Chile Gabriel Borich, who have already arrived in the country.

The population has high hopes for Arevalo de Leon after winning the elections in the second round with difference of more than a million votes O Sandra Torres Casanova.

Guatemala’s new president, a 65-year-old academic, becomes head of government with anti-corruption speech.

It was the Semilla movement that originated from Anti-corruption demonstrations recorded in Guatemala in 2015 and this gave way in the same year to the arrest of former President Otto Perez Molina (2012-2015) for million-dollar bribery scandals.

To this it should be added that Arevalo de Leon and his team can boast no need to “provide a favor to anyone” after coming to power with a tough campaign.

Guatemala’s new president will replace the current president in officeAlejandro Giammattei, who is leaving office after failing to fulfill his campaign promises and after four years of prosecuting more than 200 former prosecutors, former judges, political rivals and journalists.

The inauguration ceremony this Sunday will take place at the Miguel Angel Asturias National Theater at 14:00 local time with the participation of extensive safety device.

(according to information from EFE, Europe Press And Aristegui News)