President of Guatemala Wins Vote to Preserve His Immunity<br />The vote in Congress rejected a request from Guatemala’s attorney general<br />and the head of a United Nations anticorruption panel, which last month described a series of violations by Mr. Morales’s party and two other parties during the 2015 election campaign.<br />12, 2017<br />MEXICO CITY — Guatemalan legislators on Monday overwhelmingly voted to keep President Jimmy Morales’s immunity from prosecution, a measure<br />that protects him from a campaign finance investigation that has roiled the country’s politics.<br />Mr. Morales plunged the country into a political crisis two days after the case against his party was announced<br />by ordering Ivan Velásquez, the head of the United Nations anticorruption panel, expelled from the country.<br />Two years ago, an investigation by the panel and the attorney general into a customs fraud ring led to an outpouring of citizen protest<br />that ultimately forced President Otto Pérez Molina to resign.<br />that Corrupt politicians are trying to prevent the country from changing.<br />With so many legislators embroiled in questions over campaign finance, the congressional vote not to<br />remove the president’s immunity appeared to be a decision to close ranks against the investigation.<br />Roberto Wagner said that Despite this being a ‘win’ for Jimmy, his image is completely destroyed,
