June 8, 2026 at – 17:28
The Supreme Court of Justice, by majority decision, decided to reject the unconstitutionality action promoted by former senator Kattya González against her expulsion from the Upper House. The decision comes almost two years and six months after the opposition parliamentarian lost her investiture, on February 14, 2024.
The unconstitutionality action presented by the former senator Kattya Gonzalez he February 27, 2024almost two weeks after his expulsion from the Upper House, was rejected by the Expanded Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ)made up of 7 ministers of the highest court and two chambermaids.
With 6 votes against and three in favor, the highest court decided not to grant the action that Kattya González presented against the Resolution No. 431/2024 of the Senate, that the February 14, 2024 approved his loss of investiture with the votes of 23 Chartist legislators and their allies; in addition to 7 abstentions and 15 absences in that Senate session.
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The constitutional guarantee was rejected with the votes of the ministers Alberto Martínez Simón, Luis María Benítez Riera, María Carolina Llanes and César Diesel Junghanns; and the waiters Miguel Ángel Rodas Ruiz Díaz and Esteban Armando Kriskovich De Vargas.
The only ones who voted to allow the former parliamentarian’s action and, consequently, declare her loss of investiture unconstitutional are the ministers Víctor Ríos Ojeda, Gustavo Santander Dans and Manuel Ramírez Candia.
The dissident ministers are precisely those who did not participate in the secret meeting with the president Santiago Pena and supposedly the head of the ANR, Horacio Cartesin Mburuvicha Róga on December 3, 2025.
Kattya already handled the Court’s resolution
Although this decision of the highest court, to reject the unconstitutionality action promoted by the former opposition senator, had already been handled since last week; It was only made official this Monday, June 8 through Agreement and Sentence No. 234.
Kattya González herself reported Friday June 5 that he already managed that this resolution would be given, and that only ministers Gustavo Santander Dans, Víctor Ríos and Manuel Ramírez Candia voted to give way to the action promoted against his expulsion from the Senate.
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Sources from the Judiciary told ABC that the resolution of the Expanded Constitutional Chamber was not announced that same Friday the 5th, at the request of the President of the Republic himself. Santiago Penawho would have indicated to the Court ministers that “it was better for it to come out on Monday (today) so that it gets lost among the information on the results of the simultaneous internal elections.”
Since the file arrived at his office for him to cast his vote, the Minister Alberto Martínez Simónpresident of the highest court, was in charge of managing the file until the last vote was cast and, subsequently, to carry out the circuit of signatures of the members of the Expanded Constitutional Chamber.
MP concluded that Kattya’s expulsion is unconstitutional
He June 12, 2024 the State Attorney General’s Office, through Opinion 697 signed by the Deputy Prosecutor Artemisa Marchuk Chenahad responded to the Supreme Court of Justice that Resolution No. 431 of the Honorable Chamber of Senators “By which the Loss of Investiture of Senator Kattya Mabel González Villanueva is resolved”, It is unconstitutional.
“This fiscal representation recommends to the constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice to grant the unconstitutionality action filed by Kattya Mabel González Villanueva against the Resolution No. 431 dictated by the Honorable Chamber of Senators on February 14, 2024, as appropriate in law,” highlights the tax ruling.
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The opinion signed by deputy prosecutor Artemisa Marchuk Chena, who is not binding but a requirement for the Constitutional Chamber to define the action, had indicated that the Senate violated its own resolution No. 429/2023 that regulated the loss of investiture, “which is why the rule of law and the principle of legality, recognized (sic) in the articles 1 and 9 of the Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay”.
The Prosecutor’s Office considered that the removal of Kattya from office for the rest of the parliamentary term is not correct because a different path was taken from that outlined in Resolution No. 429/2023 regarding the procedure and the required majority.
