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Weekly Report - 01 August 2013 (WR-13-30)
COSTA RICA: Picture takes shape ahead of 2014
The announcement this week that academic and former diplomat, Luis Guillermo Solís, will run as the presidential candidate for the main opposition centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) completes the line-up of main contenders ahead of the 2 February 2014 vote. The PAC has also announced that it would not strike an alliance with any of the other parties ahead of the election – echoing similar statements by the centre-right Partido Unidad Socialcristiana (PUSC) and the right-wing Movimiento Libertario (ML). The opposition’s failure to unite provides the ruling centrist Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) of beleaguered President Laura Chinchilla – whose government was recently named as the least popular of the last six administrations – with hope ahead of the vote.
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