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Weekly Report - 25 October 2018 (WR-18-42)
GUATEMALA: Congress delivers further blow to anti-impunity efforts
Guatemala’s 158-member unicameral national legislature has recently delivered two major blows to anti-impunity efforts. Last week, for a third time, it voted not to strip President Jimmy Morales of immunity from prosecution, thus preventing his investigation for illegal electoral financing of the ruling Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) party in the 2015 general election campaign. It then approved changes to the criminal code which, among other things, absolve political parties’ general secretaries of criminal responsibility for illegal electoral campaign funds received by their parties. These latest moves by congress come as transparency concerns remain rife following Morales’ recent decision not to renew the mandate of the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) when it expires in September 2019, and bar its director, Iván Velásquez [WR-18-37].
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