Archive for the 'Election 2006' Category

Presidential Winner to be Announced … very soon

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

As of today, the TSE can announce the next President of Costa Rica.  But we are still not sure when that will be.  The time permitted for appeal the manual scrutiny of the final polling stations has expired.  The TSE has 695 appeals in total to resolve, and currently 210 of those are pending.  Once […]

PAC Clarifies Ethics Code for Representatives

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

In a weekend conference the PAC party re-emphasized its ethics code for the 18 legislators that will take congressional seats on May 1st.  Although the new reps were familiar with the code, Marta Zamora, the current fraction leader, said that after training courses it was necessary to “replant certain points”.
The reinforced points dealt with voting […]