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As the Guatemalan people prepare to choose their next president in a runoff vote, the electoral authorities announced that the ballots for the second round of elections will be delivered to the polling stations on August 4th, amid tight security and high expectations. teleSUR

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00:00 ballots for the second round of the elections that will define the next president and vice
00:04 president of the country is progressing.
00:06 The 9,486,000 ballots are expected to be delivered next August the 4th, according to the schedule
00:14 of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
00:16 It was possible to know the position of the political organizations on the ballots.
00:21 The Zemilla movement, led by Bernardo Arevalo, will be on the left side, while on the right
00:26 side will be the representation of the National Unity of Hope Party with the candidate Sandra
00:31 Torres.
00:32 In this regard, the president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Irma Valencia, highlighted
00:37 the work of digitizers participating in the process, who are members of the local communities.
00:49 We are also concerned because the data entry clerks are temporary workers.
00:53 They are young people from the locality.
00:55 They were chosen locally by the coordinators.
00:58 So we are concerned about them because just for a few days of work, we can put them in
01:03 a difficult situation when they are citizens, apart from the fact that most of them are
01:08 young.
01:09 There are also people a little older, but most of them are young and they are providing
01:14 a service to the country.
01:18 Also in Guatemala, national prosecutor,

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