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Weekly Report - 06 April 2017 (WR-17-13)

COSTA RICA: PLN names its presidential candidate

The main opposition Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) has become the first political party to confirm its presidential candidate ahead of general elections in February 2018 after the president of the legislative assembly, Antonio Alvarez Desanti, won the 2 April primaries. While opinion polls show that Alvarez is the overall frontrunner ahead of 2018, they also reveal continued widespread disillusionment with the political class which has been discredited by corruption scandals that emerged under the previous PLN government led by President Laura Chinchilla (2010-2014). This apathy has intensified under the current Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) administration led by President Luis Guillermo Solís due to its perceived failure to implement its plan of governance, stemming from its weak legislative presence (with just 13 out of 57 seats in the national assembly). One recent sign of this was the fiscal reform proposal over which Solís had to admit defeat in February [WR-17-05].

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