The pending motions will be voted on, without a prior debate, starting Tuesday, because only the parliamentarian of the National Liberation Party Carolina Delgado, presented 519 motions to the Bill in order to prevent its sanction before the coming June 6th, based on the fact that the said bill is “unconstitutional”.

The 6th of June is the deadline for preventing a dozen leaders of criminal gangs from being released due to their expiring preventive detention.

The objective of the legal reform is to extend the deadlines for carrying out investigations, debates, precautionary detentions and even appeals when it comes to this type of crime, in addition to extending the time for deliberation and sentencing.

Until now, only one motion out of a total of 529 has been approved, since other deputies presented a dozen more at the request of Attorney General Carlo Díaz, who did it to eliminate a transitory provision that established a time, that has already expired, for the implementation of the Special Jurisdiction for Organized Crime, which does not imply a substantive change in the proposal.

The reform is one of the five legal initiatives that seek to tackle the wave of crime that Costa Rica is facing, with a record number of some 335 homicides so far in 2023.

Six hundred and fifty-seven murders and a rate of 12.6 per 100,000 inhabitants, both also all-time peaks, were recorded in Costa Rica in 2022.

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