Congress: Ethics Commission will continue with investigations of three latest complaints against José María Balcázar

The Ethics Commission of Congress rejected the recommendations of the technical team of this parliamentary group to suspend the investigations of three complaints against the current head of state, José María Balcázar

The resolutions recommended that the investigations against Balcázar be suspended until he is no longer president of the Republic because, supposedly, the principle of separation of powers was contravened.

The first resolution to suspend the process (Exp. 254-2025-2026/CEP-CR) was for statements about child marriage. It had three votes in favor, four against and one abstention.

The second document (Exp. 255-2025-2026/CEP-CR) ruled on the alleged normalization of crimes against sexual freedom. While the third resolution (Exp. 259-2025-2026/CEP-CR) referred to alleged breaches of integrity and probity.

In both cases, two votes were obtained in favor, four against and one abstention.

The parliamentary group also voted in the case of Congressman Ilich López Ureña, from Acción Popular, who was denounced for alleged extortion. The technical report recommended declaring the complaint inadmissible and archiving it definitively.

According to the report’s argument, the accusations of alleged extortion were based on uncorroborated statements. Even the complainant himself denied the veracity of the audios presented as initial evidence in a journalistic report by Hildebrandt in his thirteen

The Commission’s decision was endorsed by four votes in favor, three against and two abstentions.