Preliminary and partial results in Guatemala’s presidential election indicate the likelihood of a second round of voting and who the two candidates would be in the Aug. 20 runoff. About 98% percent of the votes were counted early Monday. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal reported that former first lady Sandra Torres for the conservative UNE party and Bernardo Arévalo for the leftist Seed Movement were in the lead. But both were below 20% of the votes. That's far from the 50% threshold needed to win in the first round. Other candidates weren't far enough behind to be ruled out either.
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