Roberto Molina Barreto

Roberto Molina Barreto (born November 8, 1955) is a Guatemalan attorney and politician, who served as Attorney General of the Nation from 2005 to 2006, magistrate of the Constitutional Court from 2006 to 2016 and from 2020 and President of the Constitutional Court on three occasions.

On December 2, 2018, he was proclaimed candidate for vice president by Valor along with Zury Ríos –daughter of Efraín Ríos Montt– as candidate for president.

Biography He graduated in 1984 from the University of San Carlos of Guatemala where he obtained the titles of Law and Social Sciences, Lawyer and Notary Public. He began his career, in 1974, in the Judicial Branch where he served as an assistant officer in the courts until 1980, from that year he founded his own law firm "Molina Barreto & Asociados" in which he worked for several years in the private sphere.

Attorney General of the Nation On March 18, 2005, Óscar Berger, president of Guatemala at the time, appointed him as Attorney General of the Nation -PGN in spanish-, after having dismissed Luis Alfonso Rosales, who had been appointed in 2002 by Alfonso Portillo. Before that appointment, Molina Barreto worked and was a founding associate at the Center for the Defense of the Constitution -CEDECON in spanish-, a non-governmental organization in charge of litigating cases of constitutional rank before the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, it was there where he acquired knowledge constitutional law practitioner and belonging to said association was a determining factor for Berger to decide to appoint him as attorney general.

Constitutional magistrate From April 14, 2006, to the same date in 2011, he was a magistrate of the constitutional court, and he additionally was president in 2010 to 2011. During that period, he founded the Institute of Constitutional Justice, which is attached to the Constitutional Court.

On March 10, 2021, he was confirmed in office to serve in the VIII magistracy that will end in 2026, he was also its president between April 2021 and April 2022.