{"id":505748,"date":"2026-04-24T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/guatemala-has-a-new-list-of-six-candidates-for-attorney-general-following-a-court-order\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:04:03","slug":"guatemala-has-a-new-list-of-six-candidates-for-attorney-general-following-a-court-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/guatemala-has-a-new-list-of-six-candidates-for-attorney-general-following-a-court-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala has a new list of six candidates for attorney general following a court order"},"content":{"rendered":"Guatemala City.-<\/strong> The Guatemalan Commission for the Nomination of the Attorney General approved this Friday a new list of six candidates to hold the position during the period 2026-2030, following an order from the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, which forced a repeat of the evaluation of the files.\n\nThe new list, which will be sent to President Bernardo Ar\u00e9valo de Le\u00f3n for the election, underwent a key change with the exclusion of lawyer Zoila Morales Valdiz\u00f3n, who, according to various analysts, was the candidate with the most support to be appointed by the president, compared to others with blemishes on their record in the wake of the current attorney general, Consuelo Porras, accused of corruption.\n\nInstead of Morales Valdiz\u00f3n, the Nomination Commission voted for Carlos Alberto Garc\u00eda Alvarado, current prosecutor of the Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office), who managed to join the final list.\n\n\n

The Election of the Attorney General in Guatemala<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe re-evaluation of the 48 applicants arises after the highest court annulled the first selection, pointing out that the professional experience of some judges was erroneously accredited to integrate the list of candidates seeking to lead the Public Ministry in the next four years.\n\n\n
\"Guatemala
Integrantes de la Comisi\u00f3n de Postulaci\u00f3n asisten a la elecci\u00f3n de la n\u00f3mina de candidatos a fiscal general de Guatemala y Jefe del Ministerio P\u00fablico para el per\u00edodo 2026-2030 tras una orden de la Corte de Constitucionalidad, m\u00e1ximo tribunal del pa\u00eds, que oblig\u00f3 a repetir la evaluaci\u00f3n de los expedientes este viernes, en Ciudad de Guatemala (Guatemala). EFE\/ Mariano Macz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe final selections are Julio C\u00e9sar Rivera Claver\u00eda, N\u00e9stor Guilebaldo de Le\u00f3n, Beyla Estrada Barrientos, Gabriel Estuardo Garc\u00eda Luna, Carlos Alberto Garc\u00eda Alvarado and C\u00e9sar Augusto \u00c1vila Aparicio.\n\nIn this second vote, the current Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, sanctioned by the United States and the European Union under accusations of corruption and undermining democracy, was once again left out for not exceeding the five votes of support.\n\n\n

Questionings<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nDuring the session, the commissioners emphasized that the official letter to forward the list to President Ar\u00e9valo de Le\u00f3n must reflect that the process strictly adheres to the mandate of the highest court.\n\n\n
\"Guatemala
La presidenta de la Comisi\u00f3n de Postulaci\u00f3n, Claudia Paredes (c), participa en la elecci\u00f3n de la n\u00f3mina de candidatos a fiscal general de Guatemala y Jefe del Ministerio P\u00fablico para el per\u00edodo 2026-2030 tras una orden de la Corte de Constitucionalidad, m\u00e1ximo tribunal del pa\u00eds, que oblig\u00f3 a repetir la evaluaci\u00f3n de los expedientes este viernes, en Ciudad de Guatemala (Guatemala). EFE\/ Mariano Macz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nIn fact, the new process to integrate the final payroll was carried out despite the fact that various commissioners questioned the criterion of the constitutional court, which ruled that the career as a judge does not count as professional experience to apply for this position.\n\nPresident Ar\u00e9valo de Le\u00f3n, who maintains an open dispute with Porras over her attempts to interfere in the 2023 election results, will have until May 16 to designate the new head of the Public Ministry from among the proposed names.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guatemala City.- The Guatemalan Commission for the Nomination of the Attorney General approved this Friday a new list of six candidates to hold the position during the period 2026-2030, following an order from the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, which forced a repeat of the evaluation of the files. The new list, which will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-27ze","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}