San Jose, Dec. 12 (Prensa Latina) With today's announcement that 14 more deputies from two Costa Rican parties, New Republic and government deputies, will vote against removing President Rodrigo Chaves's parliamentary immunity, the number of new votes in favor of that position has risen to 19.

New Republic leader Fabricio Alvarado confirmed that, in addition to the legislators who opposed the measure in the first vote in September, six members of his party will vote against it again on December 16, while the pro-government deputies of Representative Pilar Cisneros will add another eight, the newspaper CR.Hoy.com reported.

The remaining members of Congress who would reject the removal of immunity in the aforementioned congressional session on the issue are those from the United Social Christian Party (PUSC): Horacio Alvarado, Carlos Andres Robles, Melina Ajoy, Maria Marta Carballo, and Leslye Bojorges, according to the newspaper.

The legislative scenario that day – the newspaper notes – would be similar to that of September 22nd, when the legislature rejected the Prosecutor’s request to lift Chaves’s immunity by a vote of 34 to 21.

This request came in response to a criminal accusation against Chaves, when, as is expected next Tuesday, 38 votes were required for his removal.

According to CR Hoy.com, the total would still be insufficient, reaching only 34 votes, even with the combined votes of the 17 from the National Liberation Party, the Broad Front, the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC), the Progressive Liberal Party, independents, and the Social Democratic Progress Party.

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