2023 Guatemala General Elections - June 25th (2nd Round: August 20th)

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In no way is UNE a center-left party, that title goes to Semilla in the runoff who are the underdogs as the only party not based on continuing as a corrupt patronage machine and will expectedly not get the conservative vote.

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It is pretty depressing that the Left of centre parties got the same amount of votes as the prior election. Now, there was mass invalid votes done in protest and I suspect a good amount of that to be indigenous peasantry, and another thing that has changed is that many tactical voted.

Semilla has 20% of the vote locked up, it needs 30% more. Semilla better run on cleaning ship of the Electoral ministry

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I don't think Semilla unilaterally governing to the Center will save them from a possible coup. It is clear that the Guatemalan mafias will not tolerate being pushed into the sidelines and waiting for the next election, they will try to remove Arevalo if presented the opportunity.

In a lot of ways, Guatemala resembles Peru in its political orientation and governing structure.

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I spoke too late, the autogolpe was obvious

Hopefully a repeat of the Bolivian corrective people's revolution frees the people of the grip of the oligarchy and their associates

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The reaction to the new president will be interesting. There is a high chance he may be impeached within a year or two in office.

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If Arevalo lasts a full term, I could see his party winning a majority of parliament next election.

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Semilla will be having good results for at least a decade now. They can showcase how they are the most popular enemy of the deep state

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Unlike the state of Bolivia, there’s an added drag that the civil service and army are more pro-deep state. It’s going to be a hard battle to wrestle control to freedom, but it must be done.

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Unlike the state of Bolivia, there’s an added drag that the civil service and army are more pro-deep state. It’s going to be a hard battle to wrestle control to freedom, but it must be done.

Can't we just have the CIA empty a few bullets into Maria Porras (the extremely corrupt Attorney General)?

The US government backed the conservatives over the liberals in 2009, you tell me

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Arevalo is the rightfully elected president of Guatemala, and certainly the most pro-human of the other possible choices.

Mad respect to the Guatemalan people out on the street against these awful elites.

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Exactly what alternative does the Guatemalan establishment have to place into the presidency? Torres?

I don’t understand why they would be so desperate to cling onto power when they would better be able to just cause gridlock in the legislature.

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Who within congress besides Semilla is even with accepting an Arevalo presidency?