Less Vacation for Representatives?
Believe it or not, the president of the Legislative Assembly, Gerardo González of PUSC, has proposed that the year end break be shortened. Under normal conditions, the assembly recesses before Christmas and returns on February 6th. Gonzalez would have the representatives return the first week of January, so that they can discuss the CAFTA.
In general the idea was received positively, but conditionally:
Federico Malavassi of the Libertarian party, said they would support the measure if the TLC was discussed, but not if the tax reform bill was to be discussed.
Laura Chinchilla of PLN, said that the proposal would be feasible if there was a consensus among the parties to advance the pact in the time allotted.
Marta Zamora, of PAC, said that their group supported more work days for the assembly in any case, whether or not CAFTA was to be discussed wouldn’t matter.