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Weekly Report - 23 May 2013 (WR-13-20)
COSTA RICA: Chinchilla faces fresh scandal
Hopes that the ruling Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN)’s recent recovery of the presidency of congress [WR-13-18] might herald a change in fortune for President Laura Chinchilla, who is entering her fourth and final year of office, have nosedived. Last week a scandal involving the lease of a jet linked to Gabriel Ricardo Morales Fallón, a businessman suspected of drug links, forced out three key collaborators – communications minister, Francisco Chacón; anti-drugs czar and intelligence chief, Mauricio Boraschi and presidential aide, Irene Pacheco. With corruption and perceived instability at the top widely cited as factors in Chinchilla’s otherwise seemingly inexplicable unpopularity, the scandal, the worst to face the government since taking office in May 2010, is likely to prove highly damaging for the PLN ahead of the February 2014 general election.
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