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Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, Vice President-elect Karin Herrera, and Seed Movement legislators, arrive for a press conference in the Plaza of Human Rights in Guatemala City, November 16, 2023
GUATEMALAN prosecutors are seeking to strip President-elect Bernardo Arevalo and several members of his party of their immunity for allegedly making social media posts that encouraged students to take over a public university last year.
This latest attempt by the right to undermine the president-elect and his Seed Movement was announced by cultural heritage prosecutor Angel Saul Sanchez at a news conference on Thursday, while federal agents executed search warrants and sought to arrest more than 30 student members of the party.
Since Mr Arevalo won a place in the August presidential run-off vote, prosecutors have been pursuing his party over alleged wrongdoing in the gathering of the necessary signatures to register his candidacy years earlier.
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