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Weekly Report - 25 February 2016 (WR-16-08)
GUATEMALA: New congress, old problems
The new conservative Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) government led by President Jimmy Morales faces serious challenges in tackling official corruption, his chief campaign pledge, not least with regard to restoring credibility to the 158-member unicameral legislature, one of the country’s least trusted institutions. These problems have again come to light in reports of the continued practice of floor-crossing (transfuguismo) as well as a scandal involving exorbitant salaries of staff employed by the legislature. Earlier this month, deputies approved reforms to the organic law of the legislature (widely considered a key first step in efforts to address corrupt practice), introducing sanctions for transfuguismo, among other things. However the impact of these changes has yet to materialise.
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