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The Constitutional Court has granted protection to Guatemala’s Vice President-elect Karin Herrera after her legal team submitted a request regarding the possibility that the State Ministry would issue
The Constitutional Court has granted protection to Guatemala’s Vice President-elect Karin Herrera after her legal team submitted a request regarding the possibility that the State Ministry would issue an arrest warrant for her to prevent her from taking office this Sunday.
The court reaffirmed “its commitment to the continued preservation of constitutional order and the rule of law.”
The agency sent a copy of the decision to the Fourth Division of the Court of Criminal, Drug and Environmental Crimes Appeals “so that the process can proceed.”
Guatemalan prosecutors charged Herrera last November with incite protests This happened at the University of San Carlos (Ushak) in April 2022, amid the process of electing a new rector of the university.
Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arevalo said “they are going to do something” to stop them from taking office amid a crackdown by prosecutors following their surprise election victory in August 2023.
Guatemala’s Public Ministry has taken numerous actions to disqualify the election results or outlaw its political party, Movimiento Semilla, a stance that has drawn international condemnation.
The main instigators of this case, interrogated both in Guatemala and abroad, are Judge Fredy Orellana; Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Rafael Curruches; and Attorney General Consuelo Porras is on the United States list of corrupt agents.
On the other hand, Guatemalan prosecutors have issued four arrest warrants for four judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) who lost their immunity for fraudulently purchasing a computer program for the last elections.
In particular, according to the newspaper La Prensa, the former president of the organization, Irma Palencia, suffered on charges of abuse of power and fraud, as well as judges Minor Franco, Gabriel Aguilera and Rafael Rojas.
Prosecutors claim that the purchase of the program was made for 148 million quetzales (17.9 million euros), despite the fact that there was another lower offer “that would have saved 34 million” (4.1 million euros).
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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