Conservative Alejandro Giammattei was poised for a decisive victory in Guatemala...
GUATEMALA CITY - Conservative Alejandro Giammattei was poised for a decisive victory in Guatemala’s presidential election on Sunday, taking a commanding lead over his center-left rival, former first lady Sandra Torres, preliminary results showed.
With returns from three-quarters of the polling stations counted, Giammattei had secured more than 59% of the vote, while Torres had won just over 40%, according to the tally posted on the website of the country’s electoral tribunal. Giammattei called the accord “bad news,” saying Guatemala is not ready to cope with a potential jump in asylum-seekers.
The next president will inherit a country with a 60% poverty rate, widespread crime and unemployment, which have led hundreds of thousands of people to migrate north. Both candidates have vowed to fight corruption - albeit without “foreign interference,” an apparent nod to the CICIG.“We’ll battle corruption from the very first day,” he said.
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