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Weekly Report - 25 June 2015 (WR-15-25)
GUATEMALA: More stops and starts against Pérez Molina
In an unprecedented move earlier this month, Guatemala’s 13-member supreme court (CSJ) unanimously voted to allow the national congress to decide whether to strip President Otto Pérez Molina of his immunity from prosecution to be investigated in relation to the two recent massive corruption scandals that have shaken his Partido Patriota (PP) government – that involving the tax authority (SAT, which forced out Vice-President Roxana Baldetti) and that involving the social security institute (IGSS). With local institutions already under scrutiny as a result of the scandals, which were uncovered by the attorney general’s office (AG) and the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), the subsequent decision by the five-member constitutional court (CC) to admit an appeal against the CSJ’s ruling on procedural grounds has reignited concerns regarding the lack of independence of the country’s top court.
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