Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina Resigns

03.09.2015 [22:43]
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Baku, September 3, AZERTAC

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigned late Wednesday, hours after a judge issued an arrest warrant against the leader in connection to a growing corruption scandal that has plunged the country into its worst political crisis since the end of a brutal civil war, according to the www.wsj.com.

Presidential spokesman Jorge Ortega said in a statement early Thursday that the president has stepped down.

Under Guatemalan law, Vice President Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre will take office to serve out Mr. Perez Molina`s term, which ends in January.

The whereabouts of Mr. Pérez Molina, a 64-year-old former general, were unknown early Thursday, although his lawyer had said in recent days that, if charged, the president would turn himself in to avoid being captured by police.

Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina Resigns

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