Weekly Report - 19 February 2026 (WR-26-07)

The crucial process of selecting Guatemala’s new five-member constitutional court (CC), which along with the attorney general’s office (MP), five-member electoral court (TSE), and comptroller general’s office (CGC) is up for renewal this year, is underway. With the appointments set to test President Bernardo Arévalo’s 2023 election-winning promise to take on the so-called ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption, he has appeared to notch up early victories in the as-yet incomplete process to pick the new top court. This comes despite complaints of interference in the process by discredited attorney general María Consuelo Porras, the visible face of the ‘pacto’, whose eight-year stint in the post ends in May, and whose own candidacy for the top court was rejected.