The salary increase for deputies is a reality as of February 4, when some executives of the Congress signed the 10-2025 act in which they instructed that the salary increase was effective as of February.
The increase to Q46 thousand 700 as a base salary for each legislator was approved in the first instance in the legislative body budget, last November. However, the Constitutional Court (CC), forced the Congress to submit to the Plenary consideration before being able to make it effective, something that until Wednesday, February 26 has not happened.
Among Leoninos speeches of the president himself, Nery Ramos, and the first secretary, Karina Paz, that the possibility of salary increase is still being analyzed, Free press He had exclusive access to the 10-2025 act and the information confirming that on February 4 the Board of Directors approved the increase and ordered that the budgetary modifications be made so that the payment could be complied with as of this month.
The directive, at that time chaired by Jorge Castro, for the absence of Nery Ramos, He signed the act after hearing the opinions issued by the General Directorate, Financial and Human Resources. All agreed that Congress had enough funds to cover the salary increase.
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To define the new monthly salary for the deputies, Congress made a consultation of the Judicial Agency (OJ) to be able to match the remuneration of the congressmen with those of the Judge of Court of Appeals.
Lester Reina González, general manager of the OJ, responded to Congress on February 3 and explained in a communication identified with number 303, the base salary of the magistrates, which was taken by Congress to make the opinion accepted by the Board of Directors.
Now, The salary of the deputies will be Q46 thousand 700 monthly, remuneration that would have to be effective this week, corresponding to the February payment.
The CC knowing the case ordered that the salary increase be confirmed or rejected by the Plenary of the Congress, so it did not delegate responsibility to the Board of Directors of the Legislative.
Sources that preferred not to be cited, close to the CC, indicated that some of the arguments not to bring the discussion to the plenary was that this order was not in the resolutive part of the document. So the majority of deputies said it was an “administrative decision.”
In Act 10-2025 it is stated that the CC “did not declare the disability of the decision to delegate to the Board of Directors the necessary readcations to improve the salary and remuneration of the deputies.”
But for a series of news that exposed the intentions of the Board of Directors of the Congress to confirm the salary increase, the CC pronounced.
The Court issued a statement explaining that they did not validate the salary increase and that they established a series of steps so that the decision was confirmed or rejected. Highlighting that in case of breaching the constitutional orders are the power to act ex officio.