These highlighted the need to increase auditing of illicit financing in campaigns and to narrow overly broad laws used to bar candidates, as well as challenges to electoral technology. Many people in Guatemala believe that her candidacy undermines the rule of law.ĭuring our meeting with the magistrates of the TSE we expressed our concerns and discussed whether Guatemalan authorities had taken steps to implement the recommendations presented by the OAS after the 2019 elections. Meanwhile, presidential candidate Zury Ríos, daughter of former dictator Efrain Ríos Montt, has been allowed to participate in the election despite the constitutional ban established in Article 186 prohibiting close relatives of former heads of state who came to power through a coup from running for president. Pineda was the leading candidate according to some recent surveys. On May 19, a court suspended the presidential candidacy of Carlos Pineda, citing alleged irregularities in the way his political party appointed him as candidate in November. The TSE also excluded Roberto Arzú from the race for violating a rule that typically carries a fine as punishment. The decision was based on an unspecified criminal complaint by the current ombudsperson who was appointed in a process that lacked transparency. Although different appeals were presented before the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, the TSE and courts rejected the candidacy for indigenous left-wing leader Telma Cabrera (who won 10% of the vote in the 2019 election) and her running mate, Jordán Rodas, the country’s former human rights ombudsman. In February, two presidential candidates on different ends of the political spectrum were arbitrarily barred from running for office.
While some candidates who are under investigation for corruption and drug trafficking have been able to run, other candidates that challenge the status quo have been blocked.
#TRIBUNAL SUPREMO ELECTORAL 2021 REGISTRATION#
Guatemala’s Mission of Electoral Observation ( Misión de Observación Electoral – Guatemala, MOE-Gt), a consortium of civil society organizations, have condemned the insistence of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal ( Tribunal Supremo Electoral, TSE) in applying differentiated, discretional and inconsistent criteria in the registration and blocking of candidates. Presidential Candidates Excluded and Supreme Electoral Tribunal Lacks Credibility The following document explains our main findings. The delegation met with civil society, public officials, independent press, diplomatic corps, and the United Nations to gather information and discuss the main issues and challenges with regards to the upcoming elections. Kennedy Human Rights ( RFKHR ) and Human Rights Watch ( HRW ) visited Guatemala City from April 17 through April 21, 2023. As part of our efforts to assess the pre-electoral conditions in the months leading up to election day, the Washington Office on Latin America ( WOLA ), Robert F. On June 25, 2023, Guatemala will hold general elections for president, legislators, and mayors in a context of deteriorating human, civil, and electoral rights. The only modification was that health and safety measures were adopted, and extra poll workers were deployed nationwide to each voting center to take appropriate measures, such as taking temperatures before voters entered the center and guiding social distancing, mandatory use of masks and hand sanitizers, etc.Summary of Recent Visit to Guatemala City
▶ Answer: Regarding the electoral process, there was no change in the way of voting due to the pandemic. ▶ Question: How did COVID-19 change the election process and election management? 1,595 voting centers were installed nationwide in the presence of 1,839 domestic election observers and 524 international observers. 84 deputies were elected to the Legislative Assembly, 20 to the Central American Parliament, and 262 as the Plural Municipal Councils.ĥ,389,017 Salvadorans residing in the national territory were eligible to vote, of which 53.39% were women and 46.61% were men. ▶ Answer: The legislative elections took place on 28 February 2021 in El Salvador: the elections were the 10th elections since the signing of the 1992 Peace Accords and the 13th since the promulgation of the Constitution of the Republic of 1983. ▶ Question: Which election(s) were held in 2021 in El Salvador? The Secretariat had a short interview with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Tribunal Supremo Electoral, TSE) of El Salvador and talked about the result of the elections, along with details about the day of election. The elections were carried out by taking safety measures while keeping the overall election process in place. El Salvador had its legislative elections on 28 February 2021.
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