Aplicación del principio de oportunidad en los procedimientos administrativos sancionadores

This research addresses the authority of the administration in being able to apply the principle of opportunity in administrative sanctioning processes, analyzing for this the legal and empirical currentness of the principle of opportunity and the scope of the principle of legality in administrative sanctioning matters in attention to the principle of reasonableness of administrative acts. As a result of the foregoing, we proceed to analyze the application of the principle of opportunity both in areas where literally space is left to administrative discretion regarding the exercise of power and in those areas where its exercise seems to be more regulated, verifying the fulfillment of the public purpose that the law orders to protect.