Chinchilla is Favourite in Costa Rica
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Laura
Chinchilla could become the next president
of Costa Rica, according to the latest poll
by CID-Gallup, with 45 per cent of
respondents would vote for the former
vice-president and member of the governing
Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) in the
2010 election.
Otto Guevara of the Movimiento Libertatio
(ML) is coming up fast, but still remains a
distant second with 19 per cent, followed by
former economy minister Ottón Solís of the
Partio Acción Ciudadana (PAC) with 13 per
cent.
Support is lower for Luis Fishman of the
Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUCS)
Rolando Araya of Alianza Patriotica (AP),
and Óscar López of the PASE.
The PLN’s Óscar Arias won the February 2006
presidential election with 40.92 per cent of
all cast ballots. Solís finished in second
place with 39.80 per cent. Arias had headed
the government from 1986 to 1990, and was
able to run again after the Costa Rican
Legislative Assembly opted to bring back
presidential re-election in 2003. He was
sworn in for the second time in May 2006.
In a campaign ads, Guevara plays on the
concerns of Costa Ricans about insecurity
and corruption, pegging Chinchilla as being
part of the problem, an extension of the
Arias government, whiel Solís accuses the
Arias administration of incompetence,
saying, "rhere are sufficient resources to
decrease poverty, but they are poorly
managed. There are many institutions that
are doing the same thing and are doing it
poorly - all because politicians don’t know
how to administrate."
The next presidential election in Costa Rica
is scheduled for Feb. 7, 2010.
The CID-Gallup poll takes in the results of
interviews with 1,224 Costa Rican adults,
conducted from Dec. 4 to Dec. 10, 2009.
Margin of error is 3 per cent.
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