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Guatemalan party: Bid to exclude us from ballot a "technical coup"
Online News Editor
July 21, 2023
Guatemala City, Jul 21 (EFE).- Guatemala’s center-left Semilla party said Friday that prosecutors’ efforts to prevent their candidate from taking part in the Aug. 20 presidential runoff amounts to a “technical coup d’etat.”
“The Attorney General’s Office is acting outside the constitutional legal framework,” Semilla’s lawyer, Juan Guerrero, told reporters as AG Office agents searched the party’s headquarters in Guatemala City.
He likened the actions of the AG Office and its allies in the judiciary to then-President Jorge Serrano’s unsuccessful attempt in 1993 to suspend the constitution and shut down Congress and the Supreme Court.
Guerrero said that he will seek the dismissal of prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche and Judge Fredy Orellana, who are spearheading the legal offensive aimed at keeping Semilla candidate Bernardo Arevalo de Leon off the ballot next month.
More:
https://www.laprensalatina.com/guatemalan-party-bid-to-exclude-us-from-ballot-a-technical-coup/