Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe 63-year-old conservative candidate and former surgeon\nwon a runoff election with 58.26 percent of the votes after 98 percent of\nvoting centres had been counted. He defeated former First Lady Sandra Torres\nfrom the centrist National Unity of Hope party, who received about 40 percent\nof the votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Today is a new period of the country,” he told\nsupporters at the party’s headquarters in Guatemala City following his victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Those who voted for us, those who did not vote for us,\nand those who did not go to vote, it does not matter. Today we need to unite,\ntoday I am the president of all Guatemalans.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the fourth time that Giammattei has run for\npresident of the Central American country – which is plagued by violence,\npoverty, and corruption. He has had multiple sclerosis for years and is reliant\non crutches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giammattei will assume office on January 14, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many who voted for him saw their votes as a vote against\nTorres, who stands accused of corruption and campaign finance violations during\nher 2015 presidential run against current President Jimmy Morales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I decided to vote against Sandra Torres because of the\naccusations of corruption,” Rosa Julaju, an indigenous Kaqchikel woman who\nlives in Guatemala City told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I hope Giammattei confronts the violence in our\ncountry,” the 38-year-old street vendor said. “I voted for him for\nbetter security.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giammattei’s campaign focused on being tough on crime,\npromising to treat gang members “like terrorists”, legalise the death\npenalty and to bring in more funding to combat migration from Guatemala. For\nvoters like Julaju, it is his stance on crime that contributed to her reasons\nto vote for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republic of Guatemala:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
President:<\/strong>\nAlejandro Giammattei<\/p>\n\n\n\nVice President:<\/strong>\nJafeth Cabrera<\/p>\n\n\n\nCapital:<\/strong>\nGuatemala City<\/p>\n\n\n\nCurrency:<\/strong> Quetzal\n(GTQ)<\/p>\n\n\n\nOfficial languages:<\/strong>\nSpanish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guatemalans have voted in Alejandro Giammattei of the Vamos party as the country’s next president, hoping he will be able to address the issues of crime and security, as well as the concerns around his human rights record. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The 63-year-old conservative candidate and former surgeon won a runoff election with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[449],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-alejandro-giammattei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}