The Municipal Council of Guayaquil formed the Bureau Commission, a key body responsible for processing the removal requests filed against Mayor Aquiles Álvarez, who is in preventive detention in the Encuentro prison, in
Santa Elena, for the Golaeda and Triple A cases.The session of April 16, 2026 took place with the presence of 14 of the 15 councilors, in a political environment stressed by at least three requests for removal based on the absence of the mayor after the expiration of his license on March
26.The Bureau Committee is responsible for qualifying the complaints and preparing the preliminary report that will determine if the removal requests are progressing within the process established in the Organic Code of Territorial Organization (Cootad).
