Justice
Alternate magistrates of the TSE present amparo in the CC to try to be annulled the acting presidency of the white magistrate Alfaro.
Building of the Supreme Electoral Court in Guatemala City. (PHOTO FREE PRESS: PL hemeroteca)
The alternate magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) act before the Constitutional Court (CC) and ask to cancel the acting presidency that Magistrate Blanca Alfaro maintains.
Alfaro is the only acting title magistrate for the suspension that weighs on the other four magistrates investigated in the TREP case.
The TSE has reported that The presidency of the magistrate ended on January 5 and the next magistrate in assuming that position would have to be Gabriel Vladimir Aguilera Bolaños, who is investigated in the aforementioned case.
In the last two months the situation has been tense in the TSE, since the magistrates have indicated that they do not know how the process for Alfaro to continue appointed in the position interim.
On January 28, after the resolution that separated again from its functions to the four title magistrates, the presidency in office continued in charge of Alfaro.
Judge Mario Hichos complied with what was resolved by the Third Chamber of Appeals that revoked the measures that Judge Érick García had granted to the officials.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office of Administrative Crimes, there are indications of possible illegalities in the purchase of the computer system for the transmission of preliminary electoral results (TREP), which had a cost of Q148 million and was used during the general elections of 2023 in Guatemala.
The magistrates indicated in the TREP case are Gabriel Vladimir Aguilera Bolaños, Raulfo Rafael Rojas Cetina, Irma Elizabeth Palencia Orellana and Mynor Franco.