Oscar Lopez Has
Sights On San
José Mayorship
Óscar López,
former
legislator for
the Partido
Accesibilidad
Sin Exclusión (PASE),
will be making
his bid for the
mayorship in San
José, heading
head-to-head
with long time
San José mayor,
Johnny Araya, in
the December
2010 municipal
elections.
López has the
support of two
other small
parties, the
Restauración
Nacional and the
Renovación
Costarricense
and the main
party Partido
Unidad Social
Cristiana. An
alliance with
the Alianza
Patriótica and
Frente Amplio is
also expected to
help boost López
to the mayor's
chair.
López made his
formal
announcement on
Monday before
some 400 people
at the Costa
Rica Tennis
Club, some few
hundred metres
from the San
José municipal
offices and the
mayor's office.
López told his
audience that is
time for a
change,
criticizing the
last two decades
of Araya rule
that has
resulted in
increased crime,
problems with
garbage on the
streets and
corruption of
municipal
officials.
To make his
point, on stage
a man masked as
Araya and
wearing a t-shit
with the slogan
"Adoquín Casino”
and holding a
plastic garbage
bag, López
offered it as a
symbol to Araya
to start
clearing out his
office.
"Araya did not
pass the test",
according to
López and as
such does not
deserve to
continue as
mayor.
The municipal
elections will
be held on
December 5,
2010.
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