Absence of a prior consultation law and Initiative 5450
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- Audited
No. 'Guatemala lacks a general consultation law' (CIIDH, analysis of 19 May 2025, the most recent retrieved); the vacuum persists despite judicial urgings. The Constitutional Court (CC) urged Congress in the Oxec judgment (May 2017) to legislate on consultation within one year — never done. The most serious legislative attempt was Initiative 5450 (the Consultation Law), tabled on 7 August 2018 by deputies Amílcar Pop and Orlando Blanco, given an unfavorable opinion by the Indigenous Peoples Committee on 4 December 2018 and stalled since.
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- Initiative 5450
- introduced 7 Aug 2018; unfavorable committee report 4 Dec 2018
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