The Congress of Guatemala has revoked the suspension of the Semilla Movement, the political group of the elected president, Bernardo Arévalo, after a tense day in which The constitution of the Chamber has been delayed for several hourspostponing the president’s investiture, since a commission had ordered that his deputies assume their positions as independents.

The measure to correct the paragraph where they were decreed as independent and to be restored as a legislative block, presented by deputy Andrea Villagrán, has been approved with 93 votes in favor and 66 against.

This vote took place after Samuel Pérez, also from Semilla, has managed to become president of Congress along with those who will be his colleagues on the Board of Directors of Congress, but not without tension having been generated in the chamber. The first vice president is Adim Maldonado, from the National Unity of Hope (UNE); the second vice president is César Augusto Amézquita, from Visión con Valores (VIVA); and the third vice president is Nery Rodas, from Cabal. The first secretary is Andrea Villagrán, from Semilla; the second secretary is Raúl Solórzano, from UNE; the third is César Dávila, from Social Welfare (BIEN); the fourth is Juan Carlos Rivera Estévez, from Victoria; and the fifth is Sonia Gutiérrez, Winaq.

Hours before, the elected president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, and his ‘number two’, Karin Herrera, had announced that they had traveled to the National Theater for his investiture after the constitution of the Guatemalan Congress, which has been delayed several hours over what provided. “I’m already here in the theater, waiting for the Congress that has been so delayed to finish its things,” Arévalo declared through a video published on his profile on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter.

Herrera, for his part, has asked for “a little patience” to the population in the face of the delay in the investiture process: “But that should not rob us of hope, so we hope that you will continue to accompany us in this new chapter of history that belongs to us,” he stated.

The solemn session of constitution of the Guatemalan unicameral Congress was suspended for several hours and the Constitutional Court gave it a period of one hour to inform it about the process. Subsequently, approved the inauguration of the X Legislature 2024-2028 with 83 votes in favor and 26 against.

The delay in the Legislative Assembly has caused concern to the international communitythe delegations that have come to the country for Arévalo’s inauguration have signed a joint declaration in which they asked the Guatemalan Congress to fulfill its constitutional mandate to “hand over power” to the president, while the UN has stated that ” closely follow the evolution of the presidential transition.