Guatemala City, Nov 5 (DPA) Social democrat Alvaro Colom has won the presidential runoff election in Guatemala, beating centre-right General Otto Perez Molina.
Colom, 56, is set to be inaugurated on Jan 14 for a four-year term as the president.
With votes in over 96 percent of the polling stations counted, Colom – who had not appeared in public Sunday night – had 52.7 percent of the ballots, to Perez Molina’s 47.3 percent, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal said.
Colom was expected to appear at his party headquarters to greet hundreds of supporters who had started gathering there to celebrate a possible triumph.