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María Consuelo Porras
María Consuelo Porras Argueta (born August 23, 1953) is a Guatemalan attorney who has been serving as the attorney general of Guatemala since 2018. She previously served as Deputy Magistrate of the Constitutional Court from 2016 to 2018. President Jimmy Morales nominated Porras as the new Attorney General and Chief of the Public Prosecutor's Office in May 2018, succeeding Thelma Aldana. Porras' tenure has been criticized for its backsliding in the fight against corruption. Porras maintained a strained relationship with the Head of the Special Prosecutor's Office against Impunity, Juan Francisco Sandoval, finally dismissing him in July 2021. In September 2021 the United States Department of State announced that it had added Porras and five judges from El Salvador to a list of "undemocratic and corrupt" officials. According to the US State Department, Porras "actively undermined" the corruption investigations conducted by Sandoval and his team. In December 2023, the Organiza ...
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Guatemala Attorney General
The attorney general of Guatemala (''fiscal general de la República de Guatemala'') is the chief public prosecutor and head of the (Department of Justice) of Guatemala. According to article 251 of the Constitution of Guatemala, the attorney general is selected by the President of Guatemala, president from a pool of six candidates who must be lawyers and must have the same qualifications as the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice of Guatemala, Supreme Court. They are nominated by a commission conformed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the deans of the law schools of the List of universities in Guatemala, country's universities, and both the chairman of the bar association and of its honor tribunal. The attorney general has a term of four years and has the same immunity as the magistrates of the Supreme Court. The president can remove the official only due to a justified reason properly established. This reason according to article 14 of the Organic law, Organ ...
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Organized Crime And Corruption Reporting Project
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Attorneys General Of Guatemala
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21st-century Guatemalan Judges
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Guatemalan Women Judges
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People From Chimaltenango Department
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1953 Births
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Attorney General Of Guatemala
The attorney general of Guatemala (''fiscal general de la República de Guatemala'') is the chief public prosecutor and head of the (Department of Justice) of Guatemala. According to article 251 of the Constitution of Guatemala, the attorney general is selected by the President of Guatemala, president from a pool of six candidates who must be lawyers and must have the same qualifications as the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice of Guatemala, Supreme Court. They are nominated by a commission conformed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the deans of the law schools of the List of universities in Guatemala, country's universities, and both the chairman of the bar association and of its honor tribunal. The attorney general has a term of four years and has the same immunity as the magistrates of the Supreme Court. The president can remove the official only due to a justified reason properly established. This reason according to article 14 of the Organic law, Organ ...
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2023 Guatemalan General Election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 25 June 2023 to elect the President of Guatemala, president and Vice President of Guatemala, vice president, all 160 seats in Congress of Guatemala, Congress, all 20 members of the Central American Parliament, and mayors and councils for all the country's 340 Municipalities of Guatemala, municipalities. Incumbent president Alejandro Giammattei was constitutionally prohibited from running for a second four-year term. However, as no presidential candidate obtained over 50 percent of the vote in the first round on 25 June 2023, a second round was held between the top two finishers on 20 August 2023: Congressman Bernardo Arévalo (the son of former president Juan José Arévalo) of the Movimiento Semilla and Sandra Torres, a former first lady representing the National Unity of Hope (UNE) party. Arévalo defeated Torres in the second round with nearly 61 percent of the vote in what was seen as a Landslide victory, landslide. The ruling Vamos ...
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