Costa Rica faces serious challenge: new president with scant support in congress

Monday, April 7th 2014 - 05:18 UTC

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A center-left academic who has never held elected office easily won Costa Rica's presidential election on Sunday, ousting the graft-stained ruling party from power after its candidate quit campaigning a month ago. However he will have quite a job ensuring support in Congress. Read full article

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ChrisR
Good luck to him, he is going to need it.

““He's going to have a government without money, a fiscal deficit of 6 percent, and lots of social spending commitments,” said Jose Carlos Chinchilla, a political analyst and a director at the University of Costa Rica.”
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“Solis has promised to boost social spending, although he says he will wait two years before raising taxes. “

OH YES, that’s the way to go folks. Don’t bother with getting “the poor” into work (most have never bothered working so he can’t get them BACK to work) just increase social spending AKA giving the idle bastards money to stay at home.

Unless Vasquez can pull a rabbit out of a hat this is what faces Uruguay in a few years time after “No Money Pepe” wasted all the surplus Vasquez left him on “the poor”. FFS!
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