Former Seguridad
Minister Wants To Be
President
Former ministro de
Seguridad Pública,
Fernando Berrocal,
yesterday confirmed that
he will be seeking the
Partido Liberación
Nacional (PLN) for the
2010 presidential
elections.
Berrocal left the
Seguridad post some
three months over the
controversy of
statements he made to
the press about
Colombian rebel ties to
Costa Rican politicians.
Berrocal said he did not
quit, nor was fired by
president Oscar Arias,
he simply left after a
difference of opinion.
Berrocal said that he
has a drawn his campaign
for the presidential
nomination that will
focus on criticism of
the current social and
democratic situation and
offer an alternative
come time for the
election.
Although she has not yet
thrown her hat in the
ring, vice president,
Laura chinchilla, is
expected to make her bid
for the presidential
chair and is seen as a
shoe in for the party's
nomination.
"I am announcing the
'democratic
insurrection' of the
inside of the party,
which are against the
orthodox "arismo" and
pointing by Casa
Presidencial of
designating Lauta
Chinchilla as a success
to Oscar Arias", said
Berrocal.
Berrocal said that he
was recently in Spain
where met and conversed
with former Costa Rican
president, José María
Figueres Olsen, about
the internal situation
of the PLN party.
The former Arias aide
said they both agreed
that Costa Rica need to
have a clear social
democratic development
plan in the face of the
coming opening of its
markets.
Berrocal said that three
months after leaving the
government nothing has
changed, that the
government lacks vision
facing the problems of
high gasoline prices and
insecurity of the
country has gotten
worse. Berrocal was
quick to note that no
important drug busts
have been made since his
departure from Seguridad,
like as if drug
traffickers just picked
up and left the country
after he left his post.
However, that is not the
case, Berrocal assures,
adding that situation is
causing for more
pessimism with the
population and that is
dangerous for the
country. |
