The conservative former mayor of Guatemala, Oscar Berger, was elected President of Guatemala, defeating former President and dictator Efrain Rios Montt, in an election where voter turnout hit record-setting lows. His platform includes reduction of the military role in poltics, printing treasury bonds to release the nation's debt, and using projects to employ labor and expand services to rural areas. He intends to launch an anti-corruption campaign, and ensure a working police force, and fully intends to uphold the UN-brokered peace agreement that declared an end to fighting in Guatemala's 30 year conflict against insurgent leftist guerillas. President Berger has not yet made it clear whether he intends to press charges against former President Montt for atrocities comitted in that conflict, whose term expiration also means an end to immunity from prosecution.