PM praises Guatemalan president-elect as ‘friend of Israel’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday congratulated Alejandro Giammattei on winning Monday’s choosing in Guatemala, job him a “friend of Israel.”

“I honour Alejandro Giammattei on his choosing as President of Guatemala. He is a crony of Israel, and we am assured that together we will strengthen a glorious team-work between a countries,” he pronounced in a statement.

Outgoing Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales changed a country’s embassy to israel final May, following a US move, and there was some regard in Jerusalem that elections in that Central American nation could lead to a annulment of that decision. Paraguay also changed a embassy to Jerusalem final May, though changed it behind out of a collateral in Sep following a elections of a new boss there.

Netanyahu also thanked Morales, observant that “During his tenure, family between Israel and Guatemala reached new heights.” He thanked him for “his scold and dauntless preference to commend Jerusalem as a collateral of Israel and to pierce a Guatemalan Embassy there.”

The regressive Giammattei degraded former initial lady Sandra Torres, who represented a center-left party.

Last month, Giammattei pronounced in an talk published by a Israel Allies Foundation that “He who is Israel’s enemy, is Guatemala’s enemy.”

During that interview, he pronounced that he would keep his country’s embassy in Jerusalem, and also take movement to appropriate Hezbollah as a militant group.

Israel’s envoy to Guatemala, Matanya Cohen, tweeted a congratulatory summary to Giammattei on Monday, to that a president-elect replied in a tweet: “Thankyou @MattanyaCohen we am certain that a family of team-work and loyalty between #Israel and #Guatemala will be stronger.”

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