The U.N.-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala that helped bring her down is now facing its own crisis, after President Jimmy Morales decided not to renew its mandate. Jimmy Morales is a Guatemalan politician, actor and comedian who served as the 50th president of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020. Born 9 March 1956, is a politician and the President-elect of Guatemala. GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan Vice President Roxana Baldetti was sentenced to 15-1/2 years in prison on Tuesday for fraud, influence peddling and illicit association related to a government contract to clean up a polluted lake, in the first of several cases she faces. She is jailed, facing charges, and also maintains her innocence.More resignations soon followed Baldetti's. The 160 members of Congress are elected by two methods; 130 are elected from 22 multi-member constituencies based on the departments, with the remaining 31 elected from a single nationwide constituency.Seats are elected using closed list Proportional representation, with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. The heads of the Ministries of Interior, Environment, Energy and Mines, the tax collection agency, the social security agency and the Guatemalan Central Bank have stepped down amid probes into a wide variety of corruption scandals.That broad sweep is due in part to the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, created by the United Nations in 2006 to help find and remove corrupt officials. Guatemala's congress voted Thursday afternoon to accept Perez Molina's resignation and appointed his successor, Vice President Alejandro Maldonado, who was next in … Guatemala Vice President Roxana Baldetti has resigned as the fallout from a scandal involving the country’s customs agency and Baldetti’s former personal secretary continues to roil the country. In 2015, both Baldetti and President Otto Perez resigned and were jailed over corruption scandals that gutted his government, sparked mass protests and plunged the country into a political crisis days before a presidential election. "Maldonado, a conservative lawyer and former Constitutional Court judge, recently became vice president, replacing replace Roxana Baldetti, who resigned May 8 because of the same scandal. He is a former director of the Guatemalan penitentiary system and participated in Guatemala’s presidential elections in 2007, 2011, 2015, and he won in 2019. In a Guatemala City courtroom on Thursday, former President Otto Pérez Molina said he intends to “face up” to allegations. Reporting by Sofia Menchu; Writing by Christine Murray; Editing by Anthony Esposito, Chizu Nomiyama and Jeffrey BenkoeGuatemala's former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti is seen in the courtroom after she was found guilty on Tuesday of fraud, influence trafficking and illicit association over a government contract, the first of several cases she faces in Guatemala City, Guatemala, October 9, 2018. Scores of police and members of the presidential guard were stationed around the building, the Associated Press reported.Judge Miguel Angel Galvez ordered Perez Molina detained overnight before a hearing Friday morning. Elections in Guatemala include, on the national level, a head of state – the president – and a unicameral legislature. Alejandro Giammattei waves with his daughter Ana Marcela Giammattei after his swearing-in ceremony as Guatemala's President in Guatemala City, Guatemala January 14, 2020.
"Security was tight around the courthouse where Perez Molina appeared Thursday morning.