The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arevaloannounced this Sunday, May 5, that he will present to the Congress of the Republic an initiative to reform the organic law of the Public Ministry (MP), with the objective of dismiss the Attorney General, Consuelo Porras.
During a national broadcast that the president gave at 9 p.m. this Sunday, he stated that the objective of this reform of the organic law is so that the “Public Ministry should not be used as a political weapon once more by any government.”
“I have decided to present to Congress an initiative to reform the organic law of the MP, which will open the way so that the prosecutor is held accountable and removed within the framework of the law“Arévalo said on national television.
He also added that the reform of the organic law seeks “reestablish the parameters of the institution as they were established in the constitutionin addition to preserving its autonomy and ensuring an effective accountability mechanism.
Arévalo, on his national network, encouraged the deputies of the Congress of the Republic to allow the reform, in That way it will be possible to “recover the country’s development aspirations.”
“The approval of this reform is in your hands, you have the opportunity to recognize the mandate for transformation that the people of Guatemala gave at the polls“says Arévalo.
The president recalled during the network that he had asked the Attorney General for her resignation, and says that not only He did not resign but “the attacks once morest democracy continued.”
“Under his command, complaints regarding corruption scandals stagnate, Where is the research for vaccines? Where is the persecution once morest those who have played with the health and education of the people of Guatemala?“says the president.
He also said that the MP has “led the attack once morest democracy, by promoting unfounded cases, in addition to questioning the electoral results.”
MP takes action before the CC
Before the president’s national channel began and the initiative to reform the organic law was announced, the MP published on his social networks that they had filed an action for protection before the Constitutional Court, in the face of the “real, certain and imminent threat” that, according to them, the president’s actions represent.
According to the MP’s publication on social networks, the actions of the president, as well as the Attorney General of the Nation and the Secretary General of the Presidency, “can lead to attacks once morest the physical integrity and life of both the Attorney General, Consuelo Porras and other officials”.
The MP, in addition to calling the actions “illegitimate and arbitrary,” states that “denote an intention to alter the democratic security of the country and a serious threat to the Constitutional Rule of Law”.
They add that what they seek with the constitutional action for protection is to “order the President of the Republic to refrain from adopting measures which intends to take control of the Public Ministry”.
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