Attorney General’s Office expects the Public Ministry to collect indications to investigate Steg members

The Attorney General’s Office (PGN) hopes that the Public Ministry (MP) can determine, through the corresponding investigations, if there are sufficient means of evidence that motivate a criminal process against the leaders of the Union of Education Workers in Guatemala (Steg), The head of the PGN, Julio Saavedra, affirmed, this after a meeting in the Congress of the Republic.

The Attorney General clarified that these actions filed by the PGN are intended, specifically, to the leadership of the magisterial union that refuses to comply with judicial resolutions, and are not directed against the country’s teachers.

“This is the leadership of the STEG and the delegates of the sectional and subsectional ones that have repeatedly opposed, which resist complying with judicial resolutions. It is not against the teachers, it is against these people in particular that resist complying with what is resolved by the judges,” said Saavedra.

Regarding the complaint filed by the Fifth Pluripersonal Court of Labor and Social Welfare of the Department of Guatemala, I certify the leadership before the MP, Saavedra indicated that The judges have the “legal power” to make their judicial resolutions fulfilland it is in that framework that one of the measures is to certify the leading of the research entity.

“The Public Ministry will have to do their investigations and determine if there are enough means of investigation that motivate a criminal process. Recall that this is only part of the different actions, consequences or effects that come from the amparos that have already been granted to the Attorney General’s Office. These are not all actions, ”said Saavedra.

“What we need is that it is understood that judicial resolutions must be fulfilled, and this is a very important message,” said the attorney general of the nation.

The complaint

The investigating entity confirmed that on June 25 he received a complaint from the Fifth Pluripersonal Court of Labor and Social Welfare of Guatemala, which sent a certification of the leading against the Steg for the possible commission of the crime of disobedience.

The complaint arises since This Court finally resolved an amparo promoted by the Attorney General’s Office against the suspension of classes promoted by the magisterial union as a measure in fact to demand salary improvements within the collective pact signed with the portfolio.

Despite this failure The members of the Magisterial Union have remained in protest in front of the National Palace of Culture, so they would be incurring the crime of disobedience.

Before the refusal of the magisterial union the Fifth Labor Court, certified the leading of the MP that is already carrying out the corresponding investigations against the Steg leadership, through the Prosecutor’s Office of Administrative Crimes.

They continue with the dialogue

For his part, the Minister of Education, Francisco Cabrera, who also participated in the meeting in Congress, indicated that “at no time has the dialogue been broken,” despite the fact that the union leadership has repeatedly insisted that there is no dialogue with the magisterial authorities. He also commented that there are three dialogue tables with the representatives of the union, in which different aspects are being analyzed, and assured that at the table in The one that specifically discusses the collective pact of working conditions is personally participating Joviel Acevedo, leader of the union.

As for the sanctions that will be imposed on teachers who are not complying with their work, Cabrera said that these are provided for in the law and must be applied, since, otherwise, the law would also be breached.

Cycle will extend in affected educational centers

Regarding the measures that will be aimed by the Ministry of Education to benefit students affected by unemployment, Cabrera said again that The most viable measure will be the extension of the school year in educational establishments that are closed, mainly in the interior of the country.

“The school year is most likely to extend in these educational centers, specifically in those who have lost classes, and not in all others. That is very important to clarify it,” The official said, who also assured that more than 85 percent of the country’s educational establishments are working in a normal way and that teachers are fulfilling their work.