President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, the son of Juan Jose Arévalo, Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945, waves to those attending the commemoration of the 1944 Revolution in the Human Rights Plaza in Guatemala City, October 20, 2023
THE electoral body in charge of regulating Guatemala’s political groups, known as the Citizen Registry, announced the suspension on Thursday of president-elect Bernardo Arevalo’s Seed Movement party.
A judge had granted the party’s suspension at the request of the Attorney General’s Office back in July, shortly before Mr Arevalo was declared the second-place finisher in the initial round of voting.
But a higher court ruled that the party could not be suspended during the election cycle, which only ended on October 31.
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