Guatemala: urgent meeting of foreign ministers due to impediments to the investiture of Bernardo Arévalo

The foreign ministers present at the inauguration of Bernardo Arévalo as the new president of Guatemala, which should be held this Sunday, given the impediments for the investiture to take place, revealed the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.

The inauguration of the new Guatemalan Congress for the period 2024-2028, made up of 160 deputies, is expected to take place this Sunday and then give way to the inauguration of the elected president, Bernardo Arévalo de León.

However, the Guatemalan opposition deputy, José Inés Castillo, guaranteed this Sunday that the current Congress of the Central American country is avoiding moving forward with its legal procedures with the aim of preventing the inauguration of the new president, Bernardo Arévalo.

“What they are doing here is delaying the installation of Congress in its tenth legislature because they do not want to give Arévalo the oath of office“Castillo, from the National Unity of Hope (UNE) party, of former first lady Sandra Torres, defeated by Arévalo de León in the 2023 elections, told journalists.

“The coup d’état is being prepared,” added Castillo, a lawmaker opposing the government currently presided over by Alejandro Giammattei.

Tension has grown in the Guatemalan Parliament in recent hours due to a dispute over credentials that prevents the inauguration of new legislators for the period 2024-2028, the tenth legislature since the establishment of democracy in the country in 1986.

Opposition deputies Aldo Dávila, from the Winaq party, and Karina Paz, from the Vos party and re-elected in office, criticized that the process to inaugurate deputies elected in the June 2023 elections is not progressing, while new demands are requested that are not in the law.

Source: Elcomercio

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