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The Court was established by Guatemala's 1985 Constitution. [1] The 1985 Constitution was written after the suspension of the prior constitution as part of Efraín Ríos Montt's Coup d'état on March 23, 1982. His regime suspended the constitution and the subsequent years demonstrated the need for stronger protections and thus a new constitution.
The preamble to the current Constitution of the Republic is: Calling on the name of God We, the representatives of the people of Guatemala, elected freely and democratically, meeting in National Constituent Assembly in order to organize legally and politically the State; affirming the primacy of the human person as the subject and purpose of social order; recognizing the family as the primary ...
Guatemala: 31 August 1954: 42 Israel: 7 June 1955 [36] 43 Greece: 16 October 1956 [37] — Sovereign Military Order of Malta: 1957 [38] 44 Iran: October 1958 [39] 45 Liberia: 18 December 1958 [40] 46 Morocco: 15 December 1960 [41] 47 Egypt: 30 December 1960: 48 Lebanon: 1960 [42] 49 South Korea: 6 June 1962 [43] 50 Jamaica: 4 December 1964 [44 ...
The Constitutional Court is competent to hear in sole instance: [1] Of direct actions of unconstitutionality against laws, decrees, regulations, resolutions and ordinances, at the request of the President of the Republic, of one third of the members of the Senate or of the Chamber of Deputies and of any person with a legitimate and legally protected interest.
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
César Bernardo Arévalo de León ([beɾˈnaɾ.ðo aˈɾe.βa.lo]; born 7 October 1958) [2] is a Guatemalan diplomat, sociologist, writer, and politician who is the 52nd and current president of Guatemala since 2024.
The Greater Republic of Central America (Spanish: República Mayor de Centroamérica), later the United States of Central America (Spanish: Estados Unidos de Centroamérica), originally planned to be known as the Republic of Central America (Spanish: República de América Central), was a short-lived political union between El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, lasting from 1896 to 1898.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (officially: Supreme Electoral Tribunal of the Republic of Guatemala) is the highest authority in electoral matters.It is an independent constitutional body of political control, and therefore it is not subordinated to any organism of the State.