The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, He asked that Bernardo Arévalo, president-elect of Guatemala, be “let govern,” where his inauguration is at risk amid the country’s political crisis.
“I hope that reconciliation is achieved and, if there are differences, that they be resolved, that they be resolved peacefully, that they let Bernardo govern, he will do very good things for the benefit of the people,” the Mexican president responded to a Guatemalan journalist. during his daily press conference.
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López Obrador’s words occur in the midst of the political crisis that Guatemala has been experiencing since July, when the Public Ministry began to interfere in the results of the elections and confiscated boxes with votes, even though Guatemalan law does not allow it.
During the first 21 days of October, thousands of protesters took to more than a hundred roads in the country to demand the resignation of the attorney general and head of the Public Ministry, Consuelo Porras, while the current president, Alejandro Giammattei, limited himself to pointing out that The law prohibits him from asking him to resign from office.
☞ The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked to respect the decision of the people of Guatemala and allow Bernardo Arévalo, who was elected as the new president of that country, to govern.https://t.co/IUwSxAkGzY
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President of Mexico once again asks that the will of the people be respected
Questioned about this context, the president of Mexico “asked that the will of the people of Guatemala, of the brotherly neighboring people of Guatemala, be respected. There has already been a democratic election, the people elected Bernardo Arévalo, he is a man of integrity, responsibility, honest.”
Deputy Samuel Pérez, a member of the Semilla Movement, from Arévalo, denounced in an interview with EFE that President Giammattei “is behind the coup attempts.” This is to prevent Arévalo from taking office on January 14.
Without referring to these statements specifically, López Obrador said that, given the rise of Arévalo, “there is resistance, there is opposition. Because they want to continue with corruption in Guatemala and that doesn’t help.”
Mexico’s relationship with Guatemala has become relevant due to the unprecedented migratory flow that crosses the region. This with up to 6 thousand migrants daily arriving at the border between both countries, according to data from López Obrador.
Giammattei has been more reluctant than other Central American leaders to implement López Obrador’s social programs to mitigate migration.
Even Guatemala’s absence from the migration summit called by the president of Mexico drew attention. This on October 22 in the state of Chiapas with a dozen Latin American countries.
The Mexican ruler now offered Arévalo “to work together.”
“There will be cooperation for the development of our peoples, we have many things in common, we are peoples who inherited the great reserve of cultural, moral, and spiritual values that the great Mayan civilization left us,” he commented.
