Guatemalan President Oscar Berger said Sunday that the nation's general election will be a model for the world, after voting at the Santa Teresita College in the south of the capital.
Guatemala's democracy "is maturing fast," he said, showing his index finger to the press to signal that he had voted.
He urged fellow citizens to vote and called the right to vote "democracy's best tool."
Guatemala is electing a president, vice-president, 158 deputies and 332 mayors.
"It is a beautiful day, the polling stations are fully deployed, and I have voted without problem," Berger said, adding that the vote will be "democratic and transparent."
He said that he will spend the rest of the day at home waiting for the results and that the true winners of the elections will be democracy and Guatemalans.
"We will not allow anything to interfere with the right to vote, much less riots," Berger said referring to groups of former paramilitaries who had threatened to boycott the election because of differences.
Source: Xinhua
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