The STE decision comes in the same week that the Register of Citizens in the same court suspended the Social Democratic Party Movimento Semente on a temporary basis, by order of criminal judge Freddy Orellana, at the request of the Public Ministry, which is investigating whether and whether there were irregularities in the collection of signatures to form the party.
The court announced that the decision known today will remain in effect until the end of the electoral period on October 31.
Guatemala’s electoral law does not allow the suspension of any party’s membership during the election period.
About 4,000 Guatemalans demonstrated on Saturday to protest the “coup”, which the president-elect condemned and accused the prosecutor’s office of carrying out a plan to prevent him from taking office in January.
The protest took place in the central square of the capital, Guatemala, in front of the National Palace of Culture, the headquarters of the government headed by Alejandro Giammattei.
The majority of the demonstrators, chanting “The coup plotters out!”, demanded the dismissal of Prosecutor Consuelo Porras.
The demonstration took place after Arevalo, who was elected in the second round of the presidential elections held on August 20, publicly warned on Friday of a “coup” against him, to prevent him from assuming the presidency. Next January 14.
The conviction of the president-elect, of the social democratic Movimento Semente party, comes in the same week that the Congress’s governing body, headed by the ruling party, Vamos, of Giamatti, suspended his political party.
The inauguration ceremony of Guatemala’s new head of state is scheduled to take place on January 14, 2024, for a four-year term, the first in the country’s history with a social democratic government.
