The Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union (EU) called this Sunday on the Guatemalan Congress to hand over “power as required by the Constitution” to the elected president, Bernardo Arévalo de León.
“The Guatemalan people expressed their democratic will in fair, free and transparent elections,” said a joint statement by “all the delegations invited and represented here” in Guatemala for the inauguration of the elected president.
The declaration was read in an improvised press conference by the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, after a meeting between the foreign ministers of several countries in the region attending the transfer of command in the Central American country.
“Gathered in Guatemala City for the presidential inauguration, we call on the Congress of the Republic to fulfill its constitutional mandate to hand over power as required by the constitution today to the president-elect Bernardo Arévalo and the vice president-elect Karin Herrera,” Almagro said.