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Weekly Report - 10 October 2024 (WR-24-40)
GUATEMALA: Judicial appointments fail to quell concerns
Unlike the previous round of judicial appointments, due in 2019 but not made until late last year [WR-23-47], Guatemala’s legislature has met the deadline to appoint new supreme court (CSJ) and appellate court judges for a five-year term. The appointment process came under heavy scrutiny given the declared efforts of anti-corruption reformer President Bernardo Arévalo to dismantle the so-called ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption that has permeated the 13-member CSJ and 160-member unicameral legislature inter alia. Criticised by civil society groups and figures like exiled internationally lauded prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval, the new judicial appointments are unlikely to provide much of a boost for Arévalo, who took office in January, in his efforts to make good on his pledge.
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