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For violating the Constitution and abusing authority, the Government filed a new application to withdraw the trial against the Attorney General and Chief Ministry of the Public (MP), Consuelo Porras.

The petition, which was presented yesterday before the Constitutional Court (CC), is due to the fact that Porras continues with activities that threaten the Government and the will of the people. expressed freely at the polls, announced the President Bernardo Arévalo, who pointed out that the The leader of the MP has proven to be the main partner of a corrupt minority and an undemocratic actor, determined to to make illegal to protect the interests of the people who feel that this process of transformation is threatened.

The president, together with Vice President Karin Herrera and the Cabinet of the Government, made sure that “the desperate statements of the prosecutor, on Wednesday night, showed his boycott of the Government and its officials, to whom We express our full support.

Arévalo said that the questions towards the Government from the Prosecutor’s Office are a clear sign that corrupt people are afraid of truth and transparency, as well as being accountable, because they do not know how to do it, because they have lived betraying the people. He reiterated that this administration is fulfilling its commitment to fight corruption.

“It is a command that he received from the people and that scares those who live from greed, deceit and have fed the people, by co-opting justice and institutions,” said the head of state. Arévalo confirmed that dark characters will not be accepted during his administration that violate the Constitution, seeking freedom as Porras did when he sought protection from groups to play.

For this reason, together with the Attorney General’s Office (PGN) I have also requested that the CC grant the temporary protection granted on May 8 in favor of the prosecutor, as it does not exist and will not was ever in danger of the breaches of the Magna. Carta denied by Mrs. Porras,” said the honorable man.

The people don’t want it.

“Citizens have expressed it regularly and continuously, from the time of the election, during the transition and it remains a permanent request,” he said.

“We will do what suits us, within the framework of the law, to effectively abandon her position to the extent that she has become an obstacle to justice,” said the honorable man, who asked for the danger that represents the law, a person in charge of the Ministry of the People for democracy.

Attack

Before the president’s press conference, Diario de Centro América consulted with political and constitutional analysts about the prosecutor’s recent questions against Arévalo, Herrera and other officials.

They all agreed that this is a desperate step, outside their jurisdiction, a new attack that seeks to harm the Government.

Edgar Ortiz, a lawyer and constitutionalist, criticized the position of Porras, indicating that the speech of the head of the research group has a clear intention to attack the Government.

“It is more normal for a political opponent than for an Attorney General; even outside the perimeter of any code of conduct for a Prosecutor,” Ortiz said.

Porras’ accusations against the President and several officials are invalid. “Here, the issue is that, obviously, the Prosecutor’s Office has an intention to attack the figure of the president, and the work of the Government,” explained Ortiz.

For his part, Manfredo Marroquín, the leader of Acción Ciudadana, criticized the actions of Porras, and said that she does not have the light to demand results from the governor. “It is outside its constitutional scope of action,” Marroquín said.

Required action

Marroquín pointed out that the Government had to take measures against these abuses which, clearly, break the law.

He saw the comments of the MP leader regarding the governor as a lack of respect, an attack on the figure of the president and the idea of ​​destabilizing the Government.

For his part, Renzo Rosal, an independent political analyst, pointed out that it is clear that the Public Ministry is in the hunting phase.

“I think what they are looking for is to launch actions, a new level of attack, that would even try to put pressure on the CC, to see if the departure of the president could be accelerated .

Rosal said that this practice seeks to use “legal” means to enforce or increase the authoritarian siege.

under siege

Gustavo Berganza, an expert in political affairs, said that the government of Arévalo is locked by the prosecutor and the Constitutional Court in an apparently dead end.

“The regime cannot do public works, it cannot prosecute those accused of corruption and, yesterday (last Wednesday), as a cherry on top, the Congressional Finance Commission denied budget expansion, in a preview of how he will handle the 2025. Budget,” explained Berganza.

“Add the alarming ruling from the CC that keeps Jorge Mondal in the Bantrab (Workers’ Bank), it is proof that the status quo is also denying​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ the ability to burn the corrupt. On the other hand, the prosecutor wants those she doesn’t like to be fired,” the expert said.

desperate messages

Deputy Samuel Pérez, elected by the Semilla Movement, described the message from the prosecutor Consuelo Porras as weak and desperate, in which she refers to President Bernardo Arévalo on the issues of only applies to the Government.

“Once again he tries to open a process against the Government and, in general, the President and officials through the use of tweets. That is not a matter that can be sustained and, much less, that the head of state, who was legitimately elected, can be demolished. “They are already completely desperate measures,” the legislator said.

Against freedom of expression

In the petition for appropriate execution requested by Attorney General Consuelo Porras to the Constitutional Court, the official points to the work of the radio Diario de Centro América and TGW as an obstacle to the criminal investigation .

The document refers directly to the directors of the two news organizations. Similarly, the Public Ministry took action against the defunct elPeriódico and its President Jose Rubén Zamora, which was considered by national and international human rights groups as a violation of freedom of expression.

The persecution of journalists led Zamora to prison and several others to go into exile.

Officer positions

The Vice President Karin Herrera spoke before the video published by the Ministry of the Public, with messages from the prosecutor Consuelo Porras, in which she celebrates the president Bernardo Arévalo. “As has been said, the groups are independent, and each one makes its decisions according to the orders of the law. And the President has made his decisions according to the mandate given to him by the legislation,” he said.

In the same way, the Minister of Finance, one of those mentioned in the appropriate execution action expressed by Porras, said: “The Government and President Bernardo Arévalo are fighting for Guatemala to move on advanced to the level of investment while others are doing everything possible to become a country. of uncertainty. Sorry”.

The Presidency’s Social Communications Secretariat described Porras’ action as unusual and meaningless. “A weak and desperate prosecutor who refuses to be accountable to the authorities, to the media, to public opinion, to the people. Moreover, a blatant attack against freedom of expression,” he said.