Guatemala’s President has Resigned Days Before a Presidential Election
Guatemala’s president, Otto Pérez Molina, has resigned days before a presidential election after the attorney general obtained a warrant for his arrest amid a corruption scandal, The Guardian reports.
Pérez Molina submitted his resignation at midnight local time, his spokesman Jorge Ortega said. The resignation is not effective until Congress accepts it and names a new president. A meeting was scheduled for Thursday morning to do this.
In a fast-moving climax to a crisis that has been building for months, MPs withdrew the president’s immunity from prosecution on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the attorney general, Thelma Aldana, requested an arrest warrant for Pérez Molina.
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