The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday asked the Guatemalan authorities to respect the results of the June 25 general elections.

The international community, including the governments of Latin America, must urge the government of Guatemala and other authorities to guarantee democratic values ​​and to respect the will of the Guatemalans expressed in the polls. the entity in a press release.

“Some of the losers of the Guatemalan election are trying to abuse the justice system to get the results they couldn’t get from the polls,” added Juan Pappier, acting deputy director of the US division of Human Rights Watch.

Electoral authorities and prosecutors from political parties on Thursday completed their review of the results of June’s presidential election, which were ordered by the judiciary in response to demands from right-wing forces and sparked international criticism.

“The hearings to review the scrutiny ordered by the Constitutional Court (CC)” ended last Saturday, an official from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) told AFP, but asked not to reveal his name.

The last department to complete the census was Guatemala, where the country’s capital is located, he said.

“We guarantee custody of the votes, in addition to transparent and efficient elections,” TSE president Irma Palencia told reporters after completing the count.

Palencia assured that “it is a very low percentage” the difference between the data released by the TSE last week and that obtained during the review process.

The TSE has yet to review the reports and set a date to make official the results of the June 25 elections.

Second round

The June 25 presidential election was won by former first lady Sandra Torres Casanova, of the National Unity of Hope (UNE), followed by academic Bernardo Arévalo de León, of the social-democratic group Semilla, who surprisingly advanced to the second round after sweeping urban areas.

However, the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the Central American country, ordered on July 1 that the results be reviewed, suspending their official announcement.

The court’s decision has been observed for the past three days by the Guatemalan electoral commissions, which reviewed the votes and determined that the changes are less than 0.05% in the results.

Several analysts, politicians and pundits have warned that the vote reform measure requested by nine traditional parties may have specific interests, such as delaying the official announcement of the result or suspending the second round of elections.