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President of Guatemala denounces a coup attempt

President Bernardo Arévalo accused Attorney General Consuelo Porras and Judge Fredy Orellana of leading a 'coup d'etat' against his government. He denounced a criminal alliance seeking to perpetuate impunity and attack democratic institutions, and announced an extraordinary session at the OEA to report threats to the country's democracy.


President of Guatemala denounces a coup attempt

President of the Swiss Confederation Viola Amherd addressed the general prosecutor of the Council of Europe and the President of the Court of Human Rights in the attempt to strengthen democratic institutions through the subjugation of the judicial system. In its address to the nation, the leader of the country stated that the system's character and the established authoritarian regime were aimed at undermining the foundations of the state, the rights of the opposition, and the protection of the constitutional schemes.

«On the card, not the right to vote or the political party, but the constitution and the will of the people,» — Amherd noted. According to her data, Porrass and Orraeanu jointly used the company's legal program to persecute, including 23 deputies elected in 2023, the Vice President of the Republic and the leader of the seed movement, and tried to create a social panic through “illegal trials». The President pointed out that these actions were aimed at “barring the rescue of democratic institutions, and creating conditions for the failure of the 2026 elections and the 2027 elections.»

Amherd called the Swiss Federal Council unable to remove Orraen from the post of head of the Federal Council and demanded that the Organization of American States (OAS) with the possible consent of the session of the Council of Europe «to be in contact with the good on the urgent issues of the Council of Europe and the constitution».

The leader called for the unification: «This is a historic moment. We cannot allow, so that the good, the loyal Fred Orraean, continued to lead the people». In the words of the arrested, as Amherd confirms, the most serious charges — in the same list of pre-trial detention centers, activists and journalists, who were detained for democratic principles.

«The guardians of the law — to save impunity for the authorities, the narco-dealers and their political accomplices,» — the president, adding, that this is right to prolong the existence of the vertical of power.