Guatemala

According to recent data from Guatemala's supreme electoral court, the centre-right Partido Patriota (PP) has exceeded the maximum legal expenditure limit in its electoral campaign. With the court lacking powers to sanction transgressions, and the PP's presidential candidate Otto Pérez Molina leading the race for the September 11 ballot as we go to print, it looks like the electoral result could be end up being a controversial one. There is also a distinct lack of transparency of parties' funding, raising concerns that electoral campaigns have been funded by illicit sources.

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