Guatemalans rally on behalf of president-elect, demonstrating a will to defend democracy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Over the past 15 years, measured support for democracy as the best form of government reached as high as 62.9% in 2014 and as low as 48.4% in 2017.
58% : Even as recently as the weeks before this year's election, only 48% of those surveyed said democracy was the best form of government, ranking Guatemala last in the region, according to not-yet-published data shared by researchers at Vanderbilt University's LAPOP Lab, which conducts the AmericasBarometer surveys.
39% : "Because in some way this corrupt state that we have lived with has authoritarian government practices (hidden) beneath the shape of democratic institutions, and the people are beginning to see that that does not lead anywhere," he said.

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