Over the past twenty-five years, successive impeachment proceedings against top officials in Paraguay (including the president and members of the Supreme Court) have revealed a "banalization" of the constitutional mechanism and a mutation in the interpretation of the constitutional clause. Removal from office has come to be understood as a response to a loss of confidence by Congress. While this logic is natural in a parliamentary system, it appears as an anomaly that undermines the separation of powers in a presidential one.

Jorge Melgarejo Raggini is a Paraguayan scholar of constitutional law. He earned his law degree with honors from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, his master's degree in Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America from the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Buenos Aires), and his Ph.D. in Public Law from Université Paris Cité (France). He is the author of articles and books on constitutional law and human rights, and his research focuses on constitutional accountability, presidentialism, and the comparative study of impeachment procedures in Latin America.