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Weekly Report - 30 August 2018 (WR-18-34)

GUATEMALA: CSJ approves request to investigate Morales

For the second time in less than a year, Guatemala’s supreme court (CSJ) has approved a request put forward by the attorney general’s office (AG) and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig), backed by the United Nations (UN), for President Jimmy Morales to be stripped of his immunity from prosecution to be investigated for illegal campaign financing involving his Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) party. Morales’s predecessor, Otto Pérez Molina (2012-2015), notably resigned in 2015 after the 158-member legislature voted to investigate him for corruption. However, the first request involving Morales was ultimately denied by the legislature, prompting widespread public anger and protests. With the issue currently being examined by a five-member congressional committee, a similar vote to protect Morales would likely reignite this unrest.

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