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Caribbean & Central America - July 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)

GUATEMALA: Moves against Pérez Molina

Last month Guatemala’s 13-member supreme court (CSJ) unanimously voted to allow the national 158-member unicameral congress to decide whether to strip President Otto Pérez Molina of his immunity from prosecution to be investigated in relation to the two massive corruption scandals that have shaken his Partido Patriota (PP) government [RC-15-06] – one involving the tax authority (SAT) and the other, the social security institute (IGSS). If approved by congress, the move would be unprecedented since Guatemala’s return to democracy in 1986, serving as a further source of uncertainty ahead of 6 September general elections.

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