Justice
These are the 20 departmental governors appointed by President Arévalo
Positions for Retalhuleu and Baja Verapaz are pending appointment due to the lack of suitable profiles, according to the governor.
President Arévalo has yet to name the governors of Retalhuleu and Baja Verapaz (Photo Prensa Libre: Hemeroteca PL)
As of this Friday, April 26, there are 20 departmental governors appointed for the period 2024-2028. However, The appointments for Retalhuleu and Baja Verapaz are pending, because the suitable profiles have not been found.
President Bernardo Arévalo said that no governors have been appointed for said departments, because the shortlists sent by the non-state representatives of the Departmental Development Councils (Codedes), They are people who “do not meet the qualities that allow trust to be representatives of the President of the Republic.”
The president stressed that the Codedes have five days to send new shortlists and hopes that, “this time they are the right ones.”
Governors appointed:
- Sololá: Édgar Benjamín Tuy Bixcul (starter) and Félix Rubén Ajú Pérez (substitute)
- Suchitepéquez: Aura Mariana Enríquez Cotton (owner)
- Petén: Mauricio José Acevedo (starter)
- Escuintla: Vivian Gabriela Mayorga de Estada (substitute)
- Chiquimula: Álvaro Augusto Noguera Flores (substitute)
- Alta Verapaz: Dilia Margarita Co Coy (starter) and Alfredo Chub Coy (alternate)
- Huehuetenango: Elsa Hernandez Mendez (starter) and Sebastian Alfredo Lopez Camposeco (substitute)
- Izabal: Carlos Enrique Tenas Martínez (starter) and Gilda Ismelda Córdova Pacheco (substitute)
- Jutiapa: Diana Maria Herrera Zepeda (starter) and Julio Palma Figueroa (alternate)
- Quetzaltenango: Aldo Fernando Herrera Schell (starter) and Mayra Leticia López Sosa (substitute)
- Sacatepequez: Maria Angelina Aspuac Con (starter) and Sochil Escarlet Acajabon (substitute)
- Chimaltenango: María del Tránsito Calan Hernández (owner)
- Department of Guatemala, owner: Diego Eduardo de León Barrios, substitute, Cristian Joselito Tzorin Garcí.
- El Progreso: Karoll Elyana Paredes Zacarías (owner)
- Totonicapán: Delfina Celestina García Reyes (holder)
- Quiché: Mélinton Estuardo Solórzano Rivera, (starter) and Hector Morán Vin (substitute)
- Jalapa: Gladis Judith Vásquez López (starter) and Brenda del Carmen Raymundo Guzmán (substitute)
- Zacapa: Francisco Arturo Echeverría Jordan (owner).
- San Marcos, Rolando López Crisóstomo (substitute)
- Santa Rosa, Allan Javier Melgar Solares (substitute)
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