{"id":31180,"date":"2023-05-02T16:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/political-newcomer-pineda-leads\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:29:33","slug":"political-newcomer-pineda-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/political-newcomer-pineda-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Political newcomer Pineda leads poll in Guatemala&#8217;s presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) &#8211;     Businessman and political newcomer Carlos Pineda was the top choice of voters ahead of Guatemala&#8217;s June 25 presidential election in a poll released on Tuesday, with former first lady Sandra Torres second and veteran diplomat Edmond Mulet third.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will be choosing a successor to President Alejandro Giammattei, whose term ends in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Prensa Libre poll showed Pineda with the support of  23.1% of respondents, followed by Torres at 19.5%, Mulet at 10.1% and Zury Rios, the daughter of the late dictator Efrain Rios Montt, at 9.2%. The poll surveyed 1,202 voters between April 14 and 23, asking them to chose among 23 presidential candidates. It had a margin of error of 2.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Giammattei is a conservative who has been widely criticized for his administration&#8217;s repression of judges, prosecutors, journalists and activists &#8211; many of whom are now in exile.<\/p>\n<p>Pineda is making his first run at the presidency, while Torres has run several times previously and Mulet once before.<\/p>\n<p>If no candidate achieves a majority on June 25, an Aug. 20 runoff would be held to determine the winner.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Sofia Menchu; Writing by Sarah Morland; Editing by Will Dunham)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/political-newcomer-pineda-leads\/file-photo-guatemalas-president-alejandro-giammattei-at-the-palacio-nacional\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410OB-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410OB-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) &#8211; Businessman and political newcomer Carlos Pineda was the top choice of voters ahead of Guatemala&#8217;s June 25 presidential election in a poll released on Tuesday, with former first lady Sandra Torres second and veteran diplomat Edmond Mulet third. Voters will be choosing a successor to President Alejandro Giammattei, whose term ends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ410OB-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31182,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180\/revisions\/31182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}