The Organization of American States (OAS) has accused prosecutors in Guatemala of taking steps that appear to be aimed at preventing President-Elect Bernardo Arevalo from taking power.
In a speech on Friday, Eladio Loizaga, leader of the OAS’s election observation mission, emphasised that the August 20 presidential election had been fair and accurate.
But he denounced subsequent actions taken against the election’s victor, Arevalo, and his political party, the Movimiento Semilla or Seed Movement.
“Given the documented conditions, it is impossible that the Electoral Observation Mission would arrive at any other conclusion than that, in this very specific case, the mechanisms and tools of Guatemalan justice are being used politically,” Loizaga told a special meeting of the OAS’s permanent council.
Loizaga added that the prosecutors’ efforts have been “selective, disproportionate and clearly tailored to the political moment”.
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