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Weekly Report - 27 June 2024 (WR-24-25)
COSTA RICA: Clashing with the comptroller general
Since floating the possibility of staging a referendum last month so that citizens could decide on whether to approve laws “indispensable to the country’s future” [WR-24-18], Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves has unveiled a legislative initiative, ‘Ley Jaguar’, providing further details. This has set him on a collision course with Marta Acosta, the head of Costa Rica’s comptroller general’s office (CGR), the reform of which ‘Ley Jaguar’ has in its sights.
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