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Weekly Report - 23 April 2015 (WR-15-16)
GUATEMALA: PP cracks up over corruption crackdown
The findings of one of the biggest investigations by the United Nations (UN) backed anti-impunity commission in Guatemala (Cicig) and the attorney general’s office (AG) into official corruption is wreaking major damage on President Otto Pérez Molina’s right-wing Partido Patriota (PP). The scandal has had an immediate impact. Alejandro Sinibaldi, the PP’s presidential candidate for the general elections this September, has already jumped ship. The party is yet to name a replacement.
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