The Constitutional Court (CC) declared without merit this Saturday, April 25, the requests for clarification and expansion linked to the election process for the attorney general and head of the Public Ministry for the period 2026-2030, hours after the reconfiguration of the final list of candidates.
The plenary session of magistrates resolved this Saturday to reject the appeals presented by Raúl Amílcar Falla Ovalle and by the president of the Judicial Branch and the Supreme Court of Justice, Claudia Lucrecia Paredes Castañeda, related to the order issued on April 23 within file 1926-2026, according to a statement from the CC.
The decision comes after the Nomination Commission approved a new list of six candidates, in compliance with an order from the highest court, which forced the evaluation of the files to be repeated.
The new list, which was already sent to President Bernardo Arévalo for the appointment of the next head of the Public Ministry, replaced the lawyer Zoila Morales Valdizón —who appeared as one of the candidates with the greatest support— with the prosecutor Carlos Alberto García Alvarado, who managed to join the final list after the second vote.
The reevaluation included 48 candidates and was carried out after the CC annulled the first selection by determining that the professional experience of some candidates was wrongly accredited, particularly in relation to their work as judges. This criterion was questioned by several commissioners, who pointed out differences in the interpretation of the constitutional ruling.
The six selected candidates are Julio César Rivera Clavería, Néctor Guilebaldo de León, Beyla Estrada Barrientos, Gabriel Estuardo García Luna, Carlos Alberto García Alvarado and César Augusto Ávila Aparicio. In this phase, the current attorney general, Consuelo Porras, did not obtain the necessary votes to join the payroll.
With information from EFE
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