Polls suggest three Guatemalan presidential hopefuls lead the field to make it through Sunday's election to a second round run-off in August.
SANDRA TORRESA polarizing figure, the center-left contender has promised to remove VAT tax from essential goods, grant loans to young entrepreneurs, lower electricity rates and cut medicine prices in half.
Colom went on to win the presidency in 2007 and Torres shot to prominence as first lady, overseeing social programs, for which she still enjoys broad support in rural areas. In 2019, she was accused by the U.N.-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala of campaign finance irregularities and illicit association, spending four months in prison. In November 2022, the case was closed for lack of evidence.Just a month ago, many polls suggested the 72-year-old former diplomat was unlikely to make the run-off. But since businessman Carlos Pineda was removed from the ballot, polls have put Mulet in second place.
In 1982 he co-founded the centrist National Renewal Party , beginning an ascent through Congress to become leader of the house between 1992 and 1993. Zury Rios began her political life aged 21 in the far-right Guatemalan Republican Front founded by her father. From 1995 to 2012 she was elected to four consecutive terms in Congress.
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