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Weekly Report - 17 May 2012 (WR-12-19)
COSTA RICA: More ministerial departures
It has not been a good month for President Laura Chinchilla. Following the resignation of her finance minister Fernando Herrero in April over a tax evasion scandal [WR-12-14], and abandonment of her flagship tax reform proposal, last week saw the exit of her justice and transport & planning ministers, Hernando París and Francisco Jiménez - the latter forced out over another corruption scandal. With 11 of Chinchilla’s 23 ministers having left the cabinet since she took office in May 2010, the instability at the top is unlikely to do much for her popularity – which, at 26%, is the lowest of any Latin American president according to a recent Mitofsky poll. Yet, a recent deal struck between her Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) and the small opposition Partido Accesibilidad sin Exclusión (Pase) could allow the beleaguered Chinchilla to regain some of the initiative.
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