Guatemala 2023 Elections: Arévalo leads voting intention for second round

The candidate Bernardo Arevalo leads with 43% the intention to vote for the presidential runoff on August 20 in Guatemala in front of the former first lady Sandra Torres (28%), according to a survey released this Wednesday.

the sounding of C.I.D. Gallup and the Freedom and Development Foundation It also shows that 67% reject the attempts of the Prosecutor’s Office to disqualify the Seed match de Arévalo, who caused a surprise in the first electoral round, since he did not appear as a favorite in the previous polls.

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22% of those consulted stated that they will not vote for either of the two candidates, both Social Democrats, and 7% intend to annul the vote.

When considering only valid votes, Arévalo has 63% voting intention and Torres 37%, according to the survey presented at a press conference.

Likewise, 40% of those surveyed consider that the son of the reformist president Juan Jose Arevalo (1945-1951) has the capacity to solve the country’s problems, against 24% of Torres.

At a press conference, Arévalo assured that after the favorable results of the survey, the judicial persecution and the black campaign against Semilla will increase.

“We are sure because the only thing left is to try to intensify (the attacks), they are seeing the response of the people of Guatemalathe people are opening their eyes and saying that we are no longer willing as a people to live under the boot of corruption“, he claimed.

In addition, he commented that the strategy comes from a group of political parties that “20 years or 30 years” they have constructed “a structure and scaffolding of the State and fraud of public money”.

“Now they are seeing how they do to derail the process to attack judicially and all kinds of illegalities in order to prevent the opinion of the people from being respected.” on August 20, he pointed out.

In the first round of June 25 there were 17.38% null votes, more than the percentage of any candidate. Torres obtained 15.86% and Arévalo 11.77%, according to the official count.

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The study was carried out between July 18 and 27 with 1,242 face-to-face interviews throughout the country and a margin of error of 2.8%.

The path to the ballot has been turbulent due to actions by the prosecution against Semilla, which still threaten to leave Arévalo out of the race for allegedly committing irregularities in its formation in 2017.

In addition, 76% of those consulted assured that Guatemala is going the wrong way with the right-wing president Alejandro Giammattei and 62% consider its management bad or very bad.

Source: Elcomercio

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