By Community Press in collaboration with Pen 360 Press and Global Exchange.
The citizens of that municipality have not been able to exercise their vote, after 130 members of the Vote Receiving Board resigned from their posts.
Voting in the municipality of San José del Golfo has been suspended after a series of incidents since Saturday night. The Departmental Electoral Board (JED) of Guatemala said that a group of people forced them to get off the buses in which they were traveling to a training session.
After they got off the buses, the members in charge of delivering and receiving the ballots were doused with gasoline and threatened with being set on fire.
The events have already been reported to the National Civil Police (PNC). However, due to the lack of Voting Reception Boards (JRV), the four voting centers installed in that municipality did not open their doors so that citizens could elect their authorities.
The Departmental Electoral Board of Guatemala and the Municipal Electoral Board "JEM" of San José del Golfo indicated that it is