Guatemalan president
hails general election
as world model after
voting
Guatemalan President
Oscar Berger said Sunday
that the nation's
general election will be
a model for the world,
after voting at the
Santa Teresita College
in the south of the
capital.
Guatemala's democracy
"is maturing fast," he
said, showing his index
finger to the press to
signal that he had
voted.
He urged fellow citizens
to vote and called the
right to vote
"democracy's best tool."
Guatemala is electing a
president,
vice-president, 158
deputies and 332 mayors.
"It is a beautiful day,
the polling stations are
fully deployed, and I
have voted without
problem," Berger said,
adding that the vote
will be "democratic and
transparent."
He said that he will
spend the rest of the
day at home waiting for
the results and that the
true winners of the
elections will be
democracy and
Guatemalans.
"We will not allow
anything to interfere
with the right to vote,
much less riots," Berger
said referring to groups
of former paramilitaries
who had threatened to
boycott the election
because of differences. |
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