Guatemala, Feb 11(Prensa Latina) Presidential binomial list reached 28 Monday with the proclamation of the candidates by the Guatemalan party Unidos, in the run-up to the June 16 elections.
National Mortgage Loan former President Luis Velasquez and lawyer Arturo Soto make up the pair announced during the extraordinary assembly of Unidos, held this Sunday.
Velasquez assured in his speech the family will be the most important thing in his government and will support its integral development.
Our people want to be heard, they want their rights and their freedom to be respected. The country is hurt by poverty due to the historical neglect of governments, because more than three million Guatemalans live in poverty and eight out of 10 indigenous people suffer the same fate', he said.
Velasquez was the Secretary of Executive Coordination of the Presidency and the Minister of Economy during Alvaro Colom's government.
The current president Jimmy Morales named him president of the Mortgage Loan, a position he resigned to fully enter the political career.
Soto Aguirre, for his part, had a seat in Congress during the 1991-1996 legislature for the Guatemalan Republican Front and served as Minister of the Interior in Oscar Berger's administration.
He also served as the Guatemalan ambassador to Mexico, confirmed local media by highlighting the trajectory of both candidates.
Thirteen political groups out of 27 are still in the process of announcing their candidates, which they will do in the remainder of February and early March, as on March 17 they will close the registration before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
The first to name names were Fuerza, Vamos, Todos, Valor, Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE), Unionista, Union del Cambio Nacional, Vision con Valores (Viva) and Frente de Convergencia Nacional ( FCN-Nacion).
They were followed by Commitment to Renewal and Order, Convergence, Winaq Political Movement and Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity.
The road to the polls looks complicated not only by the diversity of competing forces, but also by the first denunciations of illicit electoral financing for two formulas (Fuerza and UNE), the permanence of old faults, and stricter rules to control campaigns and set advertising spaces equally.
More than 7.6 million Guatemalans have been called to vote, where 340 municipal corporations, 160 MPs to Congress and 20 to the Central American Parliament will also be elected.
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Velasquez assured in his speech the family will be the most important thing in his government and will support its integral development.
Our people want to be heard, they want their rights and their freedom to be respected. The country is hurt by poverty due to the historical neglect of governments, because more than three million Guatemalans live in poverty and eight out of 10 indigenous people suffer the same fate', he said.
Velasquez was the Secretary of Executive Coordination of the Presidency and the Minister of Economy during Alvaro Colom's government.
The current president Jimmy Morales named him president of the Mortgage Loan, a position he resigned to fully enter the political career.
Soto Aguirre, for his part, had a seat in Congress during the 1991-1996 legislature for the Guatemalan Republican Front and served as Minister of the Interior in Oscar Berger's administration.
He also served as the Guatemalan ambassador to Mexico, confirmed local media by highlighting the trajectory of both candidates.
Thirteen political groups out of 27 are still in the process of announcing their candidates, which they will do in the remainder of February and early March, as on March 17 they will close the registration before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
The first to name names were Fuerza, Vamos, Todos, Valor, Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE), Unionista, Union del Cambio Nacional, Vision con Valores (Viva) and Frente de Convergencia Nacional ( FCN-Nacion).
They were followed by Commitment to Renewal and Order, Convergence, Winaq Political Movement and Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity.
The road to the polls looks complicated not only by the diversity of competing forces, but also by the first denunciations of illicit electoral financing for two formulas (Fuerza and UNE), the permanence of old faults, and stricter rules to control campaigns and set advertising spaces equally.
More than 7.6 million Guatemalans have been called to vote, where 340 municipal corporations, 160 MPs to Congress and 20 to the Central American Parliament will also be elected.
sus/lrg/tgj/mmc/gdc
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