CC REJECTS MOTION FILED AGAINST CICIG

Guatemala, October 28, 2013. On October 3, 2013, the Constitutional Court (CC) declared the constitutional motion filed by lawyer Gabriel Orellana Rojas against Decree 35-2007 of the Congress of the Republic to be inadmissible. This Decree approved the Agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Guatemala to establish the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).

Furthermore, the Court imposed a fine of GTQ 1,000 on each of the assistant lawyers, Sergio Antonio Escobar Esteban and Juan Francisco Capuano Enríquez.

The Court had before it the arguments of the Congress of the Republic, the executive branch, the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) and CICIG—all of which suggested that the motion be rejected due to the absence of unconstitutionality.

The CC concluded that the constitutional motion failed to demonstrate any evidence of a constitutional breach. The ruling was signed by the judges Héctor Hugo Pérez Aguilera, Roberto Molina Barreto, Gloria Patricia Porras Escobar, Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, Mauro Roderico Chácón Corado, Ricardo Alvarado Sandoval and María de los Angeles Araujo Bohr.