The Nomination Commission for Comptroller General of Accounts advances in its integration with the election, this Thursday, of the two representatives of the College of Economists, Public Accountants and Auditors and Business Administrators (CCEE) .
With this designation, only the election of the 11 representatives of the College of Public Accountants and Auditors (CCPA) will remain pending, scheduled for August 6, to complete the integration of the commission, made up of 27 members.
The postulator will be made up of two bodies: the academic and the union, under the direction of a president.
The academic body is made up of the deans of the 13 universities that have faculties of Public Accounting, Auditing, Administration or Economic Sciences, whose representatives have already been confirmed by the study houses.
The presidency of the commission will be headed by Miquel Cortés Bofill, rector of the Rafael Landívar University, who was unanimously elected by 13 of the 17 members of the Rectors’ Forum on July 15.
Once the commission is formed, the president will call the first work session, in which the secretariat and headquarters will be defined. The president of the commission indicated that the URL has the facilities to attend the sessions as well as to receive the citizen observation groups.
In addition, the commission must authorize the terms of the call and the profile of the applicants, in accordance with the legal parameters to access the position.
Likewise, it must establish a work schedule with the objective of delivering to Congress a list of six candidates to elect the comptroller who will take office on October 13 for the period 2026-2030.
The commission must define the different stages for the selection of candidates: review of files, assessment of professional, academic and human projection merits, psychometric tests or interviews.
Five slates for two seats
The election of the EEC is taking place with a certain secrecy. The number of applications seeking to fill the two positions in the candidate was obtained through social media monitoring by the organization Guatemala Visible.
- Worksheet 1: Professional Growth of Auditors (CPA), with Greis Monzón and Alexander Sac
- Sheet 2: Group of United Professionals, with Wilberto Rojas and Gladys Morales
- Form 3: Professional Unit (UP), with José María Fajardo and Otto Gómez
- Sheet 4: Integrity and Development (ID), with Pedro García and Arturo Morales
- Form 5: Professional Confidence (CP), with Nancy Romero and Marvin Siquim
Reliable sources, who prefer not to be cited, identify some operators and potential candidates linked to each of the lists who hope to gather the greatest number of votes.
Form 1, CPA, is linked to Walter Mazariegos, rector of Usac; Duay Martínez, deputy for Quetzaltenango elected by Vamos; and Nora Segura, former Comptroller General of Accounts.
The sources consulted also link form 2, Group of United Professionals, with workers from the Comptroller General of Accounts (CGC); form 3, Professional Unit (UP), with personnel from the Superintendence of Tax Administration (SAT); form 4, Integrity and Development (ID), with Carlos Mencos, former Comptroller General of Accounts and former deputy of the National Unity of Hope (UNE); and form 5, with former CGC collaborators.
This is how the integration of the nomination committee for Comptroller General of Accounts goes. (Free Press Photo: Visible Guatemala)
Key dates in the comptroller election process:
This is how the integration for the nomination committee for Comptroller General of Accounts is going. Congress must have a list of six candidates no later than on September 23, 2026.
| June 2 | Congress called for members of the Nomination Commission to elect the Comptroller General of Accounts. |
| July 15 | Miquel Cortés Bofill was elected president of the Nomination Commission. |
| July 17 | The College of Economists (CCEE) elects its two representatives to the Nomination Commission. |
| August 6 | The College of Public Accountants and Auditors (CCPA) elects its 11 representatives. With this, the Nomination Commission will be integrated with its 27 members. |
| September 23 (deadline) | The Commission must deliver to Congress the list of six candidates for comptroller. |
| Before October 13 | Congress must elect the new Comptroller General of Accounts from the list sent by the Commission. |
| October 13 | Inauguration of the Comptroller General of Accounts for the period 2026-2030. |