The Attorney General and Head of the Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) of Guatemala, Consuelo Porras Argueta, reiterated this Tuesday that she will not leave her position and will serve her term until 2026, despite the attempt by the current president, Bernardo Arévalo de León, to remove her from office.
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In a press conference, surrounded by almost a hundred prosecutors, Porras Argueta ruled out any option to resign and added that the actions of Arévalo de León and the vice president, Karin Herrera, are “spurious, malicious and undemocratic.”
“You (Arévalo and Herrera) are not, nor will you be, above the law,” said this Tuesday Porras Argueta, sanctioned in 2021 by the United States with the withdrawal of her visa under accusations of “undermining” justice in the Central American country.
The attorney general also responded to Arévalo de León’s words last Sunday, where the president warned that “the dark cycle of Consuelo Porras must end now,” in reference to the reform of the law presented in Congress on Monday.
“You (the Government) refer to a dark cycle, but Let me tell you that the dark cycle is yours.”replied Porras Argueta.
“I do not receive instructions in either Spanish or English,” the 70-year-old attorney general also highlighted.
To validate the reform proposed by Arévalo de León, at least 106 votes are necessary of the 160 seats in Congress, as established by Guatemalan law.
“The Public Ministry persecutes and imprisons those who denounce corruption, while forgiving and exonerating those who steal and defraud the people,” the president argued.
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The attorney general is attributed, according to several sources, with the attempts to prevent the investiture of Arévalo de León last January and also the judicial persecution of more than 100 people including prosecutors, judges and journalists, including the communicator José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, imprisoned since 2022.
EFE
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