Guatemala has a new president . Bernardo Arevalo was sworn in as the new leader of the Central American country at the end of a long and troubled parliamentary session. The 65-year-old leader of the progressive Semilla movement won the presidential elections in June with 61% of the vote. Today he is the 52nd head of state .
With his deputy, Karin Herrera, they took the oath in a ceremony at the Miguel Ángel Asturias cultural center, which began around midnight local time (5 this morning in Italy) after a long day at the Congress, which accumulated a nine-hour delay and it lasted more than 12 hours. This meant that some guests did not stay until the end, such as the King of Spain or the Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who apologized by saying he had to return to his country.
Arevalo received the presidential sash and the keys to the Constitution from a young deputy of his party, Samuel Pérez, who at the age of 31 managed to be elected president of the Congress, allowing the Semilla Movement to return to being represented in Parliament. In his first, the president stressed that «today, as a nation, we are making history. There can be no democracy without social justice and social justice cannot prevail without democracy ."
(Unioneonline/vf)
