MADRID 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A deputy from the party in the Government of Guatemala, Movimiento Semilla, has filed an appeal for protection before the Constitutional Court this Thursday, after Judge Fredy Orellana has suspended the legal personality of the political party at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Crime. Impunity (FECI).
“We have just presented an amparo action before the Constitutional Court so that neither Congress nor the Registry of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) are forced to obey an illegal, ridiculous and inadmissible resolution by Freddy Orellana,” reported parliamentarian Samuel Pérez in your social network account
The document, attached to the message from the Semilla Movement deputy, requests the constitutional body to “render without effect any action or resolution issued in order to definitively cancel the legal personality of the party” and “to order the contested authorities to refrain from executing acts that tend to” proceed in line with the above.
This announcement comes hours after learning that the seventh judge of First Criminal Instance Fredy Orellana has suspended the party of the Guatemalan president, Bernardo Arévalo, in response from the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI).
This has been confirmed by the head of this public body, Rafael Curruchiche, in statements to the press reported by Emisoras Unidas radio. “The cancellation of the legal personality of the Semilla Movement political party was requested (…) basically, with the integration of the rules, the cancellation occurred,” he indicated without providing further details.
Behind the request are the convictions handed down against four members of the party when they accepted the charges for which they were accused, reports the newspaper ‘Prensa Libre’.
In particular, these are the crimes of unregistered electoral financing, electoral control of funds, influence peddling and breach of duties.
It is not the first time that the Guatemalan Justice has suspended the Semilla Movement. In July 2023, a month before Arévalo won the presidential election, the party was suspended due to a complaint filed by a citizen who allegedly joined the party illegally.
Arévalo, before assuming the Presidency in August 2023, accused Orellana, Curruchiche and other magistrates of leading a coup against him.
Judge Fredy Orellana had previously suspended Semilla’s legal personality and had authorized the seizure of records of the election results from the Guatemalan judge.