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Weekly Report - 20 February 2025 (WR-25-07)
PARAGUAY: Congress dismisses disgraced deputy
Paraguay’s lower chamber of congress voted unanimously on 18 February to accept the resignation of Orlando Arévalo, presented 10 days earlier. Arévalo, a member of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC), was one of two deputies sitting on the Jurado de Enjuiciamiento de Magistrados (JEM), a body responsible for judging judges accused of misconduct. He is seen as a lynchpin in an overarching political and judicial corruption network denounced by a criminal judge specialised in organised crime, Osmar Legal, based on compromising text messages found on the mobile phone of the late ANR-PC deputy Eulalio ‘Lalo’ Gomes [WR-25-06].
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