Polls abutting in Guatemala presidential acclamation - Acclamation accept bankrupt in Guatemala's presidential acclamation and the aboriginal after-effects are accepted to activate to appear in the next few hours.
The attack was adamant by allegations of bribery which prompted accumulation protests and a beachcomber of political agitation that overshadowed Sunday's vote.
Otto Perez Molina accommodated as admiral and was confined on Thursday afterward a bribery investigation.
Tens of bags who approved for his abatement got allotment of their ambition if he accommodated to face accessible bribery accuse in a community artifice scheme.
Perez Molina spent the weekend in a aggressive jail.
But a additional above appeal was not met: the cessation of Sunday's acclamation that abounding said offered little another to the old guard.
Alejandro Maldonado, a 79-year-old bourgeois who became carnality admiral in May, will serve out the blow of Perez Molina's term, handing over ability on January 14, 2016.
He said he sees abating aplomb in accompaniment institutions as his capital task.
"I accept the assignment of allotment a government fabricated up of approved and trusted, complete humans who accept in our institutions," he told Al Jazeera in Guatemala City.
"But I aswell wish to absorb youngsters, amusing activists, to accord those ancestors the befalling to body the future."
Leading in a lot of acclamation with almost 30 percent abetment was Manuel Baldizon, a affluent 44-year-old agent and longtime politician.
His active acquaintance is accused by prosecutors of access trafficking but as a candidate, he has amnesty from prosecution.
Competitive rivals
Baldizon's a lot of aggressive rivals are a actor with no political experience, a above aboriginal adult and the babe of an ex-dictator accused of genocide.
If none of the 14 candidates alcove 50 percent, a runoff vote will be captivated on October 25.
Baldizon has accustomed Guatemalans' abhorrence with crime, bribery and impunity.
His attack website promises a "modernisation of the autonomous state" to ameliorate government and action abjection and amusing inequality.
Critics see Baldizon, who accomplished additional in the endure presidential race, as an archetype of what is amiss with the country's political class.
He initially campaigned on the slogan: "It's his turn" - a advertence to the actuality that the endure four elections accept been won by the antecedent runner-up.
At protests, demonstrators accept chanted: "It's not your turn."
After Baldizon's attack blew through the acknowledged beam on balloter spending, he connected cloudburst money into his campaign, blank cloister orders to stop.
Baldizon's attack aswell says a lot about the country's abiding insecurity.
He wore white bulletproof belong advised to attending like a anorak on his stops, travelling in a helicopter or armoured car and accompanied by bodyguards accretion automated weapons.
Baldizon's abutting rivals cover Jimmy Morales, a TV banana who boasts of his alien status, and Sandra Torres, who afar Alvaro Colom, a above president, in beforehand of the endure presidential chase to try to get about rules administering elections.
Also on the acclamation was Zury Rios. Her ancestor Efrain Rios Montt, a above complete ruler, faces accuse of crimes adjoin altruism for killings by aegis armament during his 1982-83 regime.
"We're cat-and-mouse for them to acknowledgment aggregate they blanket and we're talking about a lot of money. We charge hospitals," Ana Aragon, a protester, told Al Jazeera.
According to a UN commission, Guatemalan backroom are heavily financed by biologic traffickers and added bent networks in acknowledgment for aegis and favours.
A contempo address by the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies affected that 50 percent of affair costs is dirty: from bribes and money bed-making to access peddling and tax evasion.
The address estimated that the civic amount of bribery is $560m, or six percent of Guatemala's anniversary budget.
Some critics apprenticed voters to go to the acclamation cutting atramentous clothes of mourning, abstain, or casting absent ballots.
Few accept that Sunday's acclamation will break abysmal problems like a 70 percent abjection rate, 50 percent adolescent malnutrition, pernicious assemblage access and one of the world's accomplished assassination rates.
The attack was adamant by allegations of bribery which prompted accumulation protests and a beachcomber of political agitation that overshadowed Sunday's vote.
Otto Perez Molina accommodated as admiral and was confined on Thursday afterward a bribery investigation.
Perez Molina spent the weekend in a aggressive jail.
But a additional above appeal was not met: the cessation of Sunday's acclamation that abounding said offered little another to the old guard.
Alejandro Maldonado, a 79-year-old bourgeois who became carnality admiral in May, will serve out the blow of Perez Molina's term, handing over ability on January 14, 2016.
He said he sees abating aplomb in accompaniment institutions as his capital task.
"I accept the assignment of allotment a government fabricated up of approved and trusted, complete humans who accept in our institutions," he told Al Jazeera in Guatemala City.
"But I aswell wish to absorb youngsters, amusing activists, to accord those ancestors the befalling to body the future."
Leading in a lot of acclamation with almost 30 percent abetment was Manuel Baldizon, a affluent 44-year-old agent and longtime politician.
His active acquaintance is accused by prosecutors of access trafficking but as a candidate, he has amnesty from prosecution.
Competitive rivals
Baldizon's a lot of aggressive rivals are a actor with no political experience, a above aboriginal adult and the babe of an ex-dictator accused of genocide.
If none of the 14 candidates alcove 50 percent, a runoff vote will be captivated on October 25.
Baldizon has accustomed Guatemalans' abhorrence with crime, bribery and impunity.
His attack website promises a "modernisation of the autonomous state" to ameliorate government and action abjection and amusing inequality.
Critics see Baldizon, who accomplished additional in the endure presidential race, as an archetype of what is amiss with the country's political class.
He initially campaigned on the slogan: "It's his turn" - a advertence to the actuality that the endure four elections accept been won by the antecedent runner-up.
At protests, demonstrators accept chanted: "It's not your turn."
After Baldizon's attack blew through the acknowledged beam on balloter spending, he connected cloudburst money into his campaign, blank cloister orders to stop.
Baldizon's attack aswell says a lot about the country's abiding insecurity.
He wore white bulletproof belong advised to attending like a anorak on his stops, travelling in a helicopter or armoured car and accompanied by bodyguards accretion automated weapons.
Baldizon's abutting rivals cover Jimmy Morales, a TV banana who boasts of his alien status, and Sandra Torres, who afar Alvaro Colom, a above president, in beforehand of the endure presidential chase to try to get about rules administering elections.
Also on the acclamation was Zury Rios. Her ancestor Efrain Rios Montt, a above complete ruler, faces accuse of crimes adjoin altruism for killings by aegis armament during his 1982-83 regime.
"We're cat-and-mouse for them to acknowledgment aggregate they blanket and we're talking about a lot of money. We charge hospitals," Ana Aragon, a protester, told Al Jazeera.
According to a UN commission, Guatemalan backroom are heavily financed by biologic traffickers and added bent networks in acknowledgment for aegis and favours.
A contempo address by the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies affected that 50 percent of affair costs is dirty: from bribes and money bed-making to access peddling and tax evasion.
The address estimated that the civic amount of bribery is $560m, or six percent of Guatemala's anniversary budget.
Some critics apprenticed voters to go to the acclamation cutting atramentous clothes of mourning, abstain, or casting absent ballots.
Few accept that Sunday's acclamation will break abysmal problems like a 70 percent abjection rate, 50 percent adolescent malnutrition, pernicious assemblage access and one of the world's accomplished assassination rates.
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