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Weekly Report - 07 July 2011 (WR-11-27)
GUATEMALA: Last minute upset for Torres
The presidential first couple's divorce looks to have been in vain.
Last week the supreme electoral court (TSE) disqualified former First Lady
Sandra Torres from the September presidential race on the grounds that her April
divorce – designed to beat a constitutional ban on the candidacies of any close
relatives of the incumbent – constitutes "legal fraud". Torres, who is running
second in the polls for her ex husband's centre-left Unidad Nacional de la
Esperanza (UNE) and its ally, Gran Alianza Nacional (Gana), is appealing the
decision. Yet, with the 12 July deadline to register fast looming, and the UNE
admitting it lacks a back-up plan, the one imponderable looks to be whether
frontrunner, Otto Pérez Molina of the right-wing Partido Patriota (PP) can
manage a first round victory – making him the first candidate since the end of
the 1960-1996 civil war to do so.
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