Article 14 of the bill states that the president may dismiss the Attorney General for duly established justified cause, which includes the commission of an intentional crime during the exercise of their function, apart from violating constitutional order or cause ungovernability in the exercise of their office or through its instances, or if they violates the national political and economic system, the rule of law, the independence of powers and social rejection.

The Guatemalan population will have the power to request the head of state to dismiss the Attorney General, as long as five thousand signatures are collected.

President Bernardo Arévalo pointed out last Monday the refusal by Attorney General and Minister of the Public Ministry Consuelo Porras to act in accordance with the Law, and said that the corresponding options are being analyzed.

After winning the 2023 elections, Arévalo denounced the Public Ministry’s investigations against his party as the spearhead of an ongoing coup d’état, driven “by the corrupt pact in Guatemala,” in his words.

Political analysts welcomed the initiative to reform the Organic Law of the Public Ministry, while users on social networks considered its support as urgent and others called for submitting the issue to popular consultation.

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