Average Costa Rican Ignores Who Their Legislators Are

An enquiry exposes that seven in every ten Costa Rican signore who are the members of their Legislative Assembly.

The poll with 1,200 interviewees and 95% reliability shows the Legislators are perfect strangers and fail to name at least one after 27 months of being elected. Just seven percent was able to mention one; 20 percent just uttered the name of some one he/she consider a Legislator and is not; and 51 percent avoided responding to the Unimer poll for La Nacion.

Another 47 percent rated as bad or very bad the work of Congress; 29 percent rated it as regular and just 9 percent says the Assembly's work is fine while 15 percent chose not to answer.

While in April this year 38 percent claimed to know about their work, in July the figure rose five points, and the percentage of those who knew nothing dropped from 57 percent to 53, admitting Unimer to the rising interest for the work in Parliament.