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Weekly Report - 7 May 2015 (WR-15-18)

Costa Rica’s opposition unites to isolate Solís

Costa Rica’s President Luis Guillermo Solís cut a lonely figure as he delivered his state-of-the-nation address to the 57-seat unicameral legislative assembly on 1 May. Solís became the first representative of the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) to don the presidential sash a year earlier, breaking a political duopoly that had held sway over Costa Rican politics since 1930. But with the PAC winning just 13 seats, Solís faced being hamstrung unless his government could display a striking aptitude for consensus-building with the eight opposition parties in the legislative assembly. It has failed in this regard. Six of these parties just forged an alliance to control the legislative leadership positions, marginalising the PAC, and leaving Solís and his government’s reform agenda high and dry.

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