This Saturday, May 24, the President Bernardo Arévalo participated in the closure of the festival Central America has 2025whose headquarters was Guatemala.
During a dialogue with the journalist María José “Pepa” goodthe president was questioned about the harassment and siege that, according to him, he has faced his management by “economic elites and a justice system co -opted by corruption networks“
Arévalo said that one of his government’s missions has been to prevent the popular will expressed during the Electoral process.
“They were insisting until the day of the swear And it is a efforta merit of the people of Guatemala, an indigenous leadership, which threw himself into the streets and generated echoes in a society that said we need to claim democratic principles, “he said.
He added that with his management he seeks strengthening of democratic institutions, in a context in which they are present political-critical networks They had a absolute power and? They still try to achieve their goalsalthough They have weakened.
There is despair and aggressiveness. From here until there are changes that allow to recover justice institutions, such as Public Ministryit will be a complicated task, because you have to resist those efforts, said the president.
He argued that Public Ministry It is one of the “central foci of the siege of democracy”, but that there is no doubt that he will end his mandate and that he will appoint the next General Prosecutor.
There are people who think we are acting Tibly and that we dare not hit effect and very hard. We are very clear about the board and the correlation of forces that is raised, he added.
He pointed out that the hope of the elites was that their management made some type of error to be at the mercy of those institutions And so having to undergo a political judgment that will take him to dismissal.
Would an error have been to cease or get the prosecutor? Asked the journalist, to which the president replied: Completely.
He added that he has had meetings with lawyers and that there is solid legal interpretation that would support to dismiss the prosecutor; However, he argued that in the country it is the Constitutional Court who defines What is legal and what is not.
Commit an act, without having the guarantee of what will be the Constitutional interpretationit would be the shortest exit and end this period, Arévalo said, and added that in this situation could be accused of violating the law and abusing power.
Also referred to the reform that the Executive sent to Congress To modify article 14 of the Organic Law of the Public Ministrywhose approval, according to Arévalowould allow him a legal and constitutional exit.
However, he regretted that the reform depends on a Congress that does not control.