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Caribbean & Central America - August 2017 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Costa Rica’s main line-up ahead of 2018

Former labour minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada (2016-2017) was last month confirmed as the presidential candidate for President Luis Guillermo Solís’s Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) following July primaries ahead of the 4 February 2018 presidential election. His confirmation follows the nominations by Costa Rica’s two traditional parties, the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) and Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC), along with other smaller opposition parties, of their presidential picks ahead of the vote. With the first debate between the candidates having already taken place, it is clear that a key issue facing Solís’s successor will be the need to address the country’s fiscal situation. This stems from the fact that, with just 13 seats in the 57-member unicameral legislature (to 18 for the PLN and seven for the PUSC), the PAC government has, like its predecessors, failed to pass a much-needed fiscal reform.

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