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Weekly Report - 09 October 2025 (WR-25-40)
COSTA RICA: Campaign begins amid coup allegations
Costa Rica’s election campaign was not even a week old when it was plunged into turmoil. The campaign formally began on 1 October ahead of presidential and legislative elections on 1 February, with the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE) extending the customary ban on government broadcasting or advertising of its achievements to social media for the first time. President Rodrigo Chaves, a denizen of social media, accused the TSE of “gagging” him. Days later, the TSE requested that the legislative assembly lift Chaves’s immunity from prosecution after considering 15 opposition complaints of his alleged interference in the electoral process. Pro-government legislators accused the TSE of an attempted institutional coup.
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