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Weekly Report - 27 January 2011 (WR-11-04)
Constitutional doubts characterise Guatemalan vote
With no less than three presidential hopefuls facing possible legal
objections to their candidacies, the constitutional court (CC) looks set to play
an unusually prominent role in Guatemala's general elections this September.
Critically, these candidates include the likely contender for President Alvaro
Colom's centre-left Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE), First Lady Sandra
Torres de Colom, who is currently second in the polls.
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