Responding to a challenge by the PAC campaign team, Oscar Arias rejected any possibility of a debate between front runners "for the good of the country", even though PAC representatives reminded him that in his previous campaign he asked politicians to be more open "in order to make Costa Rica the first developed country in Latin America, we have to lose our fear of dialogue."

Otton Solís, the PAC candidate reacted, "Then Oscar Arias believes he is God, because only God is above the Pope."