A request for cover was filed within the Constitutional Court docket (CC) towards the President of the Republic Bernardo Arévalo and the Minister of Protection Henry David Sáenz Ramos over the problem of promotions within the Guatemalan Military.
The presenter of the authorized motion is Miguel Estuardo Barrios Martínez, an officer with the rank of colonel of Infantry, with a diploma within the Normal Workers.
With the request, it’s identified that the promotion process within the armed establishment may very well be violated.
Barrios Martínez, discharged from the Military, within the safety factors out “the upcoming danger and risk posed by the promotion to the rank of Brigadier Normal of officers with the rank of Colonel” for not complying with the requirement established in article 12, of Decree 14-2022.
This decree refers back to the reforms to Decree 72-90 of Congress, Constitutive Regulation of the Guatemalan Military.
It highlights the “risk to a future scenario that places constitutional rights and ensures and violations of constitutional and bizarre norms in danger.”
Moreover, “there isn’t any temporality, because the violating act has not been consummated and these violations may happen on Could 25, 2024.”
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The motion within the CC is meant to forestall basic and constitutional rights from being violated if promotion to the rank of Brigadier Normal is granted on the proposal of the Ministry of Protection.
Warns that President Arévalo, in his capability as Normal Commander of the Military, may grant promotions this Could 25 and that “they don’t meet the necessities.”
He reviews that on March 31, simply final March, the chief of the Nationwide Protection Normal Workers, with directions from the Minister of Protection, issued the directions that regulate the decision for promotion to the rank of Brigadier Normal or its equal within the Protection Drive. Mar, with impact on Could 25 to officers with the rank of Colonel.
It additionally signifies that the contested authority intends to grant promotions to the rank of Brigadier Normal to 4 colonels who presently maintain positions of vice minister of Nationwide Protection, vice minister of Protection Coverage and Planning, deputy chief of the Normal Workers of Nationwide Protection and an inspector basic of Military.
The Presidency was consulted relating to what Barrios Martínez said within the amparo, and so they stated, along with the Ministry of Nationwide Protection, that the case is being prosecuted, so the CC is the competent physique to find out what is acceptable.
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