Even though the vote count is not final, the state’s re-imbursement of parties for campaign costs has been defined according to the manual count and preliminary reports for legislator and city council members.

The state must pay out 13.900 Billion colones campaign funding, this is 0.19 per cent of the Gross National Product. This money is distributed according to the votes received by each party. A party must either elect a legislator, or receive at least 4% of the vote for president in order to get a piece of the pie.

PLN and PAC will have a right to 5.9 billion colones each. Parties must present their expenses to the TSE in order to get the funds. PLN will present 4.3 billion colones in expenditures, while PAC will only ask for 1.6 billion colones back.

The Libertarian Movement has a right to ¢ 1.350 Billion, PASE, (¢121 million), PUN, (¢319 million), Frente Amplio, (¢84 million), Restauración Nacional (¢150 million) and PUSC (¢841 million).

According to Alfredo Ortuño, of PLN, the campaign cost ¢5.550 billion. (11 million US Dollars) Of this ¢4.300 billion will be given back by the state and ¢1.250 billion will be covered by donations.

PAC limited itself to ¢2.400 billion before the campaign, but actually spent only ¢1.600 billion, said Óscar Fernández, treasurer.

Álvaro Alpízar, of the Libertarian Movement, said that ¢800 million was spent, so they will save the state over ¢500 million. The party’s initial charter did not permit it to accept state funds, but this provision was overturned during the party convention, causing a rift among some members.

Roberto Jiménez, PUSC treasurer, explained that they calculate that the state funds “will cover 58 per cent of the investment”. The PUSC campaign cost about ¢870 million.