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Caribbean & Central America - December 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458)
COSTA RICA: Budget passed, but complications remain
With the constitutionally determined deadline of 30 November looming, Costa Rica’s lawmakers were obliged to participate in a rare, Saturday session of the 57-member unicameral legislature to vote on the government’s budget. It passed, with 27 votes in favour and 22 against, much to the relief of the leftist Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) administration of President Luis Guillermo Solís. However, a ruling is still pending on the constitutionality of the budget’s passage following a complaint by an opposition legislator.
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