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Weekly Report - 20 July 2017 (WR-17-28)
COSTA RICA: PAC ends speculation ahead of 2018 vote
President Luis Guillermo Solís’s ruling Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) has named its presidential candidate ahead of 4 February 2018 general election. Former labour minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada (2016-2017) won the 9 July primaries to face Antonio Alvarez Desanti, of the main opposition Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN), and Rodolfo Piza of the other traditional party, Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC), who surveys show are the main contenders. With a handful of other candidates also competing, Quesada, Alvarez and Piza represent the only parties to have elected presidents over the last four decades, with President Solís himself making history as the first PAC candidate to win the presidency in 2014. With surveys also showing that the electorate has yet to make up its mind, indicative of continued widespread disillusionment with the political class, the race would seem very much open.
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