930,590 for Torres vs. 928,110 for Baldizon. Very unexpected!
But it looks like it could be a proper left/right second round.
Does Jimmy Morales have specifically right-wing positions?
No. An article in this week's ever-excellent
Semana magazine quoted a Guatemalan academic who described him as a 'clown without a team or a credible manifesto', whose only appeal in the current context is that he is a political neophyte (former TV personality/comedian type) unconnected to the corrupt political class (the same guy aptly described him as the '
voto nulo personified'). In other words, he seems like the kind of village idiot who, if elected, will inevitably turn out to be a terribly incompetent crook who will run the country down the drain.
