Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arevalo has temporarily suspended his participation in the government transition, he said in a news conference on Tuesday, as actions by authorities fueled doubts around the transfer of power.
The announcement came after the top prosecutor's office in the Central American country raided facilities run by Guatemala's main electoral tribunal on Tuesday.
Arevalo said his participation in the transition would resume once the "necessary institutional political conditions are reestablished." "These actions constitute further proof that the Public Prosecutor's Office... has been intensifying a strategy of questioning the electoral process and intimidating electoral authorities, electoral personnel and the thousands of people who ... carried out two days of peaceful and transparent voting," the OAS said in a statement.
"We reiterate our firm willingness to immediately resume the transition process as soon as the elected authorities request it," the government added.
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