Archive for February 9th, 2006

Fiscal Plan First Up After Vacations

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

After a recess of 2 months, the legislative assembly got back to work this week and has finished the treatment of 1200 motions that were added to the tax package. Next up is the discussion, where each representative has 20 minutes to speak about the plan. It is possible that the phase could conclude before […]

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Arias Leads Official Count

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

After 2 days of counting (official counting), the PLN candidate, Oscar Arias, leads teh PAC candidate Ottón Solís by 9,946 votes after a count of 654 tables, according to the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE) at 11:45 pm on Wednesday.
Solís has 55,384 votes while Arias has 65,958.
The president of the TSE, Oscar Fonseca, explained […]

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