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Weekly Report - 31 July 2014 (WR-14-30)
GUATEMALA: Echoes of 2011
Last week the leader and secretary general of Guatemala’s main opposition party, Libertad Democrática Renovada (Líder), Manuel Baldizón, announced his resignation from the party. Widely considered a cynical attempt to sidestep restrictions on electoral campaigning ahead of the 2015 general elections, local commentators decried the move as the latest mockery of the country’s electoral laws. It has led to comparisons with the decision by former first lady Sandra Torres to divorce her husband, former president Alvaro Colom (2008-2012), in a bid to overcome a constitutional provision forbidding her from running in the 2011 presidential elections (efforts which were ultimately thwarted by the judiciary).
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