Central America

Bernardo Arévalo called Attorney General Consuelo Porras to a meeting

The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, called a meeting next Wednesday with Attorney General Consuelo Porras, whom he accuses of leading an attempted “coup d’état” and who is expected to ask her to resign, as previously announced.

The government issued a statement this Friday reporting that the president, who took office at the beginning of the week, sent a formal invitation to Porras for a meeting in the presidential office, without specifying whether the request included his resignation.

The appointment is scheduled for January 24 at 10:00 a.m. local time (16:00 GMT) at the National Palace in the capital, according to the statement.

The social democratic president, 65, had previously announced that he would summon Porras this week to ask him to resign. Under the law, the president does not have the power to dismiss the attorney general.

“We will summon her to the office to ask her to resign. I have said it publicly and I reiterate it: at that appointment I will ask her to resign and I hope she has the good sense to hand it in,” Arévalo said in an interview with CNN in Spanish last Wednesday.

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Porras, 70 years old and considered “corrupt” and “undemocratic” by the United States, is accused by Arévalo, protesters and the international community of undermining democracy and endangering the presidential transition due to questioned investigations.

The Prosecutor’s Office led by Porras initiated legal action against Arévalo after he surprisingly advanced to the runoff in June.

In addition, he managed to get a judge to suspend Arévalo’s party, Semilla, for alleged irregularities in its formation in 2017.

The Prosecutor’s Office also maintains that last year’s elections are “null” due to alleged irregularities in the minutes containing the votes.

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