Guatemala's president-elect wants to rewrite migration deal with US

Switch: Alejandro Giammattei wants to see changes to agreement. Photo: James Rodriguez/Bloomberg

Sofia Menchu

The winner of Guatemala's presidential election, Alejandro Giammattei, said he hoped he could make changes to a controversial migration deal the Central American country signed with the Trump administration last month.

Speaking to Reuters shortly before being declared victor, the conservative Mr Giammattei said he wanted to see what could be done to improve the deal that outgoing president Jimmy Morales agreed to stem US-bound migration from Central America.