Guatemala ex-first lady Torres short of majority in first-round vote
GUATEMALA CITY - Former first lady Sandra Torres won a clear victory in the first round of Guatemala’s presidential election, results showed on Monday, but the center-left candidate faces a tough test to see off her nearest conservative rival in a direct runoff in August.
Torres said on Monday she would work to forge alliances to win the runoff, which is due to be held on Aug. 11. The national vote was split between 19 contenders. The Trump administration on Monday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras over the three countries’ immigration policies.
Jose Carlos Sanabria, a political analyst from the ASIES think tank in Guatemala City, said whoever became president would struggle to craft a working majority. “I think it will be hard to move the legislative agenda,” Sanabria said. But the former wife of ex-president Alvaro Colom also has high negative ratings, and faces a real test to win a direct runoff if conservative voters unite against her.
Instead, Morales himself became a target of a CICIG probe into allegations of campaign finance wrongdoing and was subject to impeachment proceedings in 2017.He survived the attempt to oust him, and then engaged in a bitter dispute with the CICIG before finally terminating its mandate, effective from September. The presidential candidate for his FCN party picked up just over 4% of the vote.
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