Guatemala: protesters set fire to part of Congress – News

This Saturday alone there were 17 calls from different organizations for protests in various parts of the country to protest against the “express approval” of the 2021 budget by Congressaccording to the local newspaper The newspaper.

The Constitutional Court (CC) welcomed this Saturday morning an appeal for protection filed by two citizens against Giammattei, which forced him to “preserve public order” and to authorize “both the right to demonstrate as well as the right to free movement of people and vehicles ”.

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Despite this, the municipality of Guatemala City suspended public transport due to the “high concentration of people” in the center.

This Saturday, several people smashed the windows of Congress and threw artefacts that started the fire inside the building, according to the newspaper Free press.

The same media revealed that Castillo had proposed to Giammattei that they both leave their positions “for the good of the country”, given the persistent differences between the two..

The vice-president proposed this solution to rule out “seditious ideas”, such as a coup, and assured that he did not want to assume Giammattei’s position, but clarified that he would not resign if the president also did not.

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Castillo added that he had offered Giammattei to veto the sanctioned budget and send it back to Congress because it has “anomalies,” and described the head of state as “someone who can -being done wrong “.

Communications secretary Francis Maseck said the presidency had no comment on Castillo’s remarks.

On September 29, Giammattei publicly berated Castillo after a recording of a conversation in which the deputy deputy demanded he be “serious” was leaked to the press..

“If Mr. (Castillo) has any discrepancies, let him come to the cabinet and expose them, but don’t grab his cat and send him to a newspaper to try and fall victim to something that isn’t a victim, “said the radio president.

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Giammattei confirmed the veracity of the leaked audio and threatened Castillo to sue him for spreading this private conversation held in the cabinet chat group.

This conversation took place when Castillo was summoned to a cabinet meeting to define whether or not the state of calamity due to the coronavirus pandemic would continue and replied that he would not be present and criticized Giammattei for not delegating powers to him while he remained isolated for having contracted Covid-19.

“We could have had this meeting well in advance if you had decided to delegate the convocation to me at the Council of Ministers and not selfishly stop it just thinking about the exercise of the power which was incumbent on you,” said the vice at the time.

“The vice president’s problem is that in the last four weeks he never approached any department to see what we were doing; if someone has scratched their stomach, at least let them keep their mouth shut, ”Giammattei replied.