"The Son of the Former President Wins the Former First Lady", Guatemala's Presidential Election | Election | Guatemala
According to the website of Guatemala's "Free News" on August 20th, 95% of the vote count in the second round of the presidential election showed that 64 year old scholar and candidate of the Guatemalan "Seed Movement" party, Bernardo Arevalo, defeated the "National Union of Hope" candidate Sandra Torres in the second round of voting to win the presidency of the Republic of Guatemala.
According to reports, after 95% of the votes were counted, Bernardo Arevalo received 59% of the vote, while his competitor Sandra Torres received 36.2% of the vote.
Unlike the first round of elections, with only two candidates, electronic vote counting has made rapid progress.
The President of the Supreme Electoral Court of Guatemala, Ilma Parencia, stated that nearly 3500 polling stations were operating normally on the 20th of the voting day and "there were no major incidents.".
The Supreme Electoral Court will officially announce the election results in the coming hours, and Arevalo will be sworn in on January 14th next year to replace the current President Alejandro Jamatay, serving a four-year term.
In addition, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported on August 20 that Bernardo Arevalo, a sociologist and former diplomat, was the son of Juan Jose Arevalo, Guatemala's first democratically elected president. And Torres is the wife of the late former president Alvaro Colom, who ruled from 2008 to 2012.