Anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as the president of Guatemala just minutes after midnight on Monday, finally ending months of some very “Stop the Steal”-type bullshit led by Attorney General Consuelo Porras threatened to derail his inauguration, the AP reports.
“It fills me with deep honor to assume this lofty responsibility, showing that our democracy has the necessary strength to resist and that through unity and trust we can change the political panorama in Guatemala,” Arévalo said in his inauguration speech after Porras had since August trying to get him jailed or the results of the election voided. Just getting into office might have been the easy part however, as the congress won’t even recognize Arévalo’s party as legitimate.