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Weekly Report - 14 December 2023 (WR-23-50)
GUATEMALA: Will Arévalo take office?
With a month until the handover of power in Guatemala, speculation is mounting as to whether President-elect Bernardo Arévalo will in fact take office. In what is the latest brazen attempt by the discredited attorney general’s office to reverse his landslide victory in August’s run-off, won on the pledge to take on entrenched corruption in Guatemala’s political institutions, prosecutors have announced new “irregularities” requiring the election to be annulled. Accompanied by a new request for Arévalo to be stripped of his immunity from prosecution, the latest move marks the culmination of what Arévalo has long dubbed a coup d’état, which has seen his party suspended, and its members and magistrates of the electoral court (TSE), which upheld the result, targeted. The international community threw its full weight behind Arévalo. It remains uncertain as to whether this will prevent Guatemala from spiralling into authoritarianism.
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