GUATEMALA CITY: Dark horse candidate Bernardo Arevalo scored a landslide victory in Guatemala's presidential election, final results showed on Monday (Aug 21), as he vowed to crack down on pervasive corruption. The bespectacled 64-year-old sociologist swept from obscurity in what observers see as a stingin
GUATEMALA CITY: Dark horse candidate Bernardo Arevalo scored a landslide victory in Guatemala's presidential election, final results showed on Monday , as he vowed to crack down on pervasive corruption.
His rival in the runoff, former first lady Sandra Torres - who enjoyed the backing of the incumbent as well as the elite - came in second with 37 per cent of the vote. Arevalo will become the first leftist president at the helm of Guatemala in 12 years when he takes office in January. Under Giammattei, several prosecutors fighting graft have been arrested or forced into exile. He had also cracked down on critical journalists.
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the order to disqualify Arevalo's Semilla political party, which had prompted protests. In Sunday's election, fed-up voters expressed despair over the poverty, violence and corruption that have gripped the Central American nation, pushing thousands of its citizens to emigrate in search of better lives, many to the United States.
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