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Weekly Report - 13 November 2014 (WR-14-45)
GUATEMALA: Pressure grows to cancel election of top justices
There are growing calls for the constitutional court (CC) to cancel elections which took place in September for 13 new supreme court (CSJ) magistrates, 126 appeals’ court judges and their alternates. This week civil society groups like Fundación Myrna Mack and the Centro para la Defensa de la Constitución, as well as the United Nations (UN)-based anti-impunity commission (Cicig), called for their cancellation. This, after the CC announced on 9 October its decision to suspend the swearing-in of the newly-elected justices after admitting appeals against the election process. The case once again illustrates the endemic weaknesses of Guatemala’s institutions.
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