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REACTION: Guatemala’s Surprising Runoff

By AQ Editors

Front-runner Sandra Torres will face unexpected second-place finisher Bernardo Arévalo on August 20.

Former First Lady Sandra Torres and Bernardo Arévalo—an academic, former diplomat, and son of a famed revolutionary president—are headed to a runoff election on August 20 after a first-round vote that took many by surprise. Polls consistently showed Torres as a front-runner and Arévalo trailing far behind. The race had oscillated wildly, especially as three other popular candidates who had been polling strongly, Roberto Arzú, Thelma Cabrera and Carlos Pineda, were disqualified from the race by elections authorities on uncertain grounds. These and other controversies led the “null...

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