President Bernardo Arévalo has already received the new list of candidates for attorney general and head of the Public Ministry (MP)which was prepared by the nomination commission after a resolution of the Constitutional Court (CC), in which it ordered the instance to prepare a new list.
The new list, as well as the files of the 6 candidates, were received by the General Secretariat of the Presidency on Saturday, April 24 and from this list the president must choose the successor of Consuelo Porras for the period 2026 – 2030.
With interviews
During the press conference held this April 27 at the National Palace of Culture, President Arévalo stated that during this week he will interview the six candidates for attorney general, and in the order of the votes obtained by each of the candidates within the process carried out in the nomination commission.
The president confirmed that these interviews will be carried out this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, as part of the selection process that he will be carrying out.
“Indeed, we are going to be doing the interviews over the course of this week to be able to move forward in the process. Between Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I am going to interview the candidates on the list, in strict order of the number of votes they obtained in the commission’s qualification. So these days we are going to be addressing each of them,” Arévalo stated.
The president said that, although challenges to the payroll are still in the receiving phase, hopes that there will be no actions or other inconveniences that could affect or delay the election process by the Executive.
Regarding the topics he will discuss in the interviews with the candidates, he preferred to remain reserved, although he indicated that the central issue will revolve around the co-optation of political-criminal networks within the investigating entity.
“The central question I am going to ask you is, based on the fact that we have an attorney general’s office that has been co-opted by criminal political networks to generate impunity, to criminalize people, to carry out persecution for political motivations or for spurious motivations, whether at the invitation of transnational organized crime networks or operations from third countries or even by political invitations themselves,” he assured.
According to the president, “a strategy is needed to recover the attorney general’s office and establish a Prosecutor’s Office that, effectively, fulfills its functions as established in the Constitution and the law, in an independent manner, in an autonomous manner, in a manner in accordance with the legislation.”