Alert of trespassing at Movimiento Semilla headquarters in Guatemala

The elected deputy of the Seed Movement, Andrea María Reyes, warns that the headquarters of her party, located in Zone 1 of the Guatemalan capital, has been raided by law enforcement, without specifying further details.

“Attention, they are raiding the party headquarters,” the legislator who is part of the leftist party bench that won the ballot for the presidential runoff said via Twitter.

Journalistic reports from Guatemala state that the raid is carried out by the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI), a Public Prosecutor’s Office, following up on the possible “illegal affiliation” of citizens in the constitution registry of the party that runs towards the second lap. Agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) also participate in the operation.

Semilla’s presidential candidate, Bernardo Arévalo, has reacted to the events, arguing that the seizure of the party’s headquarters “is the flagrant demonstration of the political persecution that we have denounced. They don’t care about anything, and they’re not going to stop, but we won’t stop either,” the politician said on social media.

The Public Ministry has not ruled on the operation.

TSE requests amparo before the Constitutional Court

As the electoral process advances of Guatemala, a dispute has been opened between the country’s institutions. This Friday the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has filed an amparo before the Constitutional Court against the head of the Public Ministry, Consuelo Porras, and eight other judicial officials, given the “certain, future and imminent threat that the denounced authorities violate the Democratic State of Law”.

In a release Disseminated to explain the situation, the TSE “condemns the disproportionate, intimidating and excessive force actions with which the different authorities have acted,” including officials and workers of the institution whose obligation is to abide by the constitutional mandate.

The plenary session of magistrates has also declared to the Guatemalan citizens that they are “firmly” committed to the constitutional democratic system of law, “which is based, among others, on the principle of alternation in the exercise of power.”

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