Outsider Bernardo Arévalo appeared to be the “virtual winner” of Sunday’s election to be Guatemala’s next president after voters angry at widespread corruption and leaders’ failure to tackle it made a decisive choice for change.
A potential victory by the progressive candidate is almost certainly distressing politicians who have been enjoying impunity for corruption, along with some members of the monied elite and their allies in organized crime.
Some of Arévalo’s supporters gathered at a plaza downtown in the capital waving flags and blowing horns. Arévalo made it into the runoff with only about 654,000 votes or 11% of the total in the first round in June. On Sunday, he received more than 2.4 million. Voting appeared to have been peaceful. The Attorney General’s Office, which sought unsuccessfully to suspend Arévalo’s party before the vote, announced several arrests for interference with the process, but they appeared to be minor.
Thinking of the future of his children, he said, “We hope that they improve the economy, that there’s work.” Among her hopes for Guatemala’s next government are more security, jobs for the poor families whose children she sees begging in the streets and more hospitals.
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