They left Congress and since then remained out of public opinion, now, former deputies Nineth Montenegro and Roberto Villate reappeared as advisors to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). to lobby for reforms to the Electoral and Political Parties Law (Lepp).
The president of the TSE, Blanca Alfaro, confirmed that the two former parliamentarians make up the team that advises on the Lepp issue, within the framework of the Electoral Update and Modernization Commission (Came).
“Mr. Nineth Montenegro, we appreciate her participation, and former deputy Roberto Villate, “They are aimed at seeing lobbying and legislative technique,” Alfaro announced, during the first official meeting of Came to prepare a reform proposal.
Alfaro said that Villate is hired by the TSE and Montenegro by an independent consultant, both with the same objective: to analyze the 1,256 proposals that were presented by civil society, business chambers and political organizations.
“We will work in different tables, in which migrants, women’s organizations, civil society and economic organizations are represented,” said Alfaro.
“We are looking at the issue of open lists, electoral justice, of electoral financing and the alternation of power,” he added.
Upon completion of the proposals, the text will be sent to Congress to be analyzed by the Electoral Affairs Commission and consensus is reached for its eventual approval.
Within the proposals presented by different sectors, andThere is the reduction in the number of deputies in Congress and in the Central American Parliament, although in the latter, there is also discussion of leaving Guatemala out of this instance.
Who are the former parliamentarians?
Nineth Montenegro founded the Mutual Support Group (GAM) in 1984 and then, in 1996, she managed to reach Congress where she founded the Encuentro por Guatemala party, of which she was general secretary and retained a seat until 2020, when she failed to be re-elected and the match was cancelled.
His work within the Legislature was characterized by supervising the use of public funds and the work of officials on duty.
In 2009, he promoted the Law of Nomination Commissions, which governs the election of the attorney general of the Public Ministry (MP), the comptroller general of the Nation and the magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
Montenegro faced a process for alleged illicit financing, sHowever, it was protected by the Constitutional Court (CC).
Montenegro was singled out in an investigation because the party failed to meet the deadline to deliver to the General Inspection of the TSE the financial statements for the last semester of 2015.
Right hand.
Roberto Villate served as a deputy representing the Democratic Freedom party (Líder), founded by Manuel Baldizón, who faced prosecution in the United States for money laundering. The match was canceled by the TSE.
Villate was classified as Baldizón’s right-hand man and who had the final say in the decisions of the political group.
Villate was accused by the Public Ministry for not having reported Q21.7 million to the TSE, when he was general secretary of Líder in Manuel Baldizón’s presidential campaign.
He lost his immunity as a deputy on August 24, 2017, following a long legal battle in which he filed 14 recusal actions that delayed the process for a year.
Finally, the Sixth Criminal Judge Carlos Toledo ruled that the former legislator lacked merit.r because he considered that it did not hinder the audit of the accounts of that political organization.
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