Jeff Abbott

Al Jazeera speaks to po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts and oth­er ex­perts about po­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ments af­ter Guatemala’s elec­tion.

The con­ser­v­a­tive Na­tion­al Uni­ty of Peace par­ty has filed a com­plaint al­leg­ing in­con­sis­ten­cies in the Au­gust 20 elec­tion.

Pro­gres­sive can­di­date Bernar­do Areva­lo will face off against con­ser­v­a­tive San­dra Tor­res in an Au­gust 20 run-off vote.

Ob­servers fear in­ter­fer­ence in the fi­nal leg of the pres­i­den­tial race, as pros­e­cu­tors tar­get one of the lead­ing par­ties.

Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date San­dra Tor­res has paused her cam­paign in sol­i­dar­i­ty with pro­gres­sive ri­val Bernar­do Areva­lo.

The coun­try’s Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court has sus­pend­ed its cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the elec­tion re­sults, pend­ing a re­view of votes.

First round of Guatemala’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tion in­di­cates sup­port for anti-cor­rup­tion ef­forts and vot­er dis­con­tent.

More than nine mil­lion Guatemalans are el­i­gi­ble to vote af­ter di­vi­sive and tur­bu­lent gen­er­al elec­tions cam­paign.

Crit­ics have de­nounced the case against in­ves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Jose Ruben Zamo­ra as an at­tack on press free­dom.

Some are ques­tion­ing the vote’s in­tegri­ty af­ter sev­er­al op­po­si­tion can­di­dates were blocked from run­ning.