Guatemala's President-elect Alvaro Colom on Monday called for a unity behind his plans to end the country's desperate poverty.
Colom told a news conference that he would work to attain a national brotherhood with 23 indigenous groups, which he saw as a great opportunity to unify the country.
Colom, 56, won 52.82 percent of the vote in Sunday's presidential runoff election with all the votes counted, beating retired general Otto Perez Molina, said the Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Monday.
He wished Guatemala to be a model social democratic nation with a Mayan face: strengthened unity, national identity and relations with neighbors.
Colom added that he would fight crimes by creating jobs and overhauling the courts and plan to increase social spending to help most Guatemalan people, who live in poverty.
Colom, who won on his third attempt, will take over presidency from conservative incumbent Oscar Berger on Jan. 14, 2008 and rule until 2012.
Source: Xinhua
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