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Caribbean & Central America - December 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)
COSTA RICA: Villalta becomes the candidate to watch
A few months ago, Johnny Araya, of the governing Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) was beginning to look unassailable in the presidential election scheduled for 2 February 2014. Recent surveys, however, have electrified the race, with José María Villalta, of the small, left-wing Frente Amplio, now in the lead, according to the pollster, Unimer. Given the widespread rejection of the current president, Laura Chinchilla, and Araya’s own tin-ear during campaigning, his declining fortunes are unsurprising. But few expected Villalta to be the beneficiary.
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