Justice against election results
The harbingers of the current political crisis could not be overlooked. Already after the first round of the presidential elections in June 2023 and the unexpected entry of Bernardo Arévalo, candidate of a party belonging to the left spectrum SEMILLA, into the run-off elections, parts of the judiciary began to question the legitimacy of the party, the candidate and the election result itself. The attorney general, a head of a special prosecutor's office as well as a frontline judge.
Initially, proceedings were initiated against Semilla to annul this party on the grounds that protocols had been falsified during its founding process. The intention was to prevent the party and Arévalo from being admitted to the run-off elections. This was prevented by the Constitutional Court, but the process as such was and still is ongoing.
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