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Weekly Report - 07 December 2023 (WR-23-49)
GUATEMALA: Electoral court magistrates flee the country
Four members of Guatemala’s electoral court (TSE), which upheld the 20 August presidential victory of anti-graft candidate Bernardo Arévalo, have fled the country. The departures of Irma Palencia, Ranulfo Rojas, Gabriel Aguilera, and Mynor Franco follows a vote by congress, which is aligned with the so-called ‘pacto de corruptos’ (an allusion to entrenched corruption in Guatemala’s political institutions), to strip them of their immunity from prosecution. This is in line with a supreme court (CSJ) order granting a request by the attorney general’s office whose head is US-sanctioned María Consuelo Porras. The move, which follows a similar request against Arévalo [WR-23-47], is widely considered the latest sign of what the president-elect claims is a creeping coup d’état co-led by Porras, aimed at preventing the peaceful transition of power in January 2024.
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