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A lower court in Guatemala granted a prosecutor’s request to exclude presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo from the race on Wednesday, July 12, and suspend his party, Semilla, over allegations it had more than 5,000 illegally members including 12 deceased people. However on the following day Guatemala’s Supreme Court provisionally suspended the order following a flood of international criticism.
Other opposition candidates have already been disqualified from this year’s presidential election. On Thursday morning, July 13, prosecutors raided the electoral tribunal’s citizen registry office as part of the Semilla probe.
Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche, whose office requested Semilla’s suspension, has previously targeted anti-graft campaigners. Curruchiche is also on the U.S. State Department’s Engel List for “corrupt and undemocratic actors.”
Guatemala’s President Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei’s administration said it would “maintain distance” from the judicial process and respect the election winner declared by the electoral tribunal.
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