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Weekly Report - 8 September 2011 (WR-11-36)
GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina chants victory – but what sort?
With less than a week until the 11 September general elections and the controversy over former First Lady Sandra Torres’s candidacy well and truly buried, the remaining imponderable is the scale of victory that frontrunner, right-wing former general Otto Pérez Molina of the Partido Patriota (PP) is likely to get. With polls suggesting that a first round victory is just beyond his grasp, a run-off with a newcomer, populist businessman Manuel Baldizón of the Libertad Democrática Renovada (Líder), is on the cards. Both candidacies are, in different ways, emblematic of the chief concern of the electoral period – the failure of parties to uphold campaign funding rules.
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