Candidates Must Share The Cost
of Convention, PLN Party Says
Becoming a presidential candidate for the Partido Liberación
Nacional (PLN) is not cheap, especially as the party does not have
the money to hold the national convention to pick its candidate come
June 7.
As such the party's executive committee, headed by Francisco Antonio
Pacheco, said it will raise the entrance fee to to ¢37.5 million
colones (us$67.500) from the original ¢30 million for the four
declared candidates.
Former vice-president, Laura Chinchilla; San Jose's mayor, Johnny
Araya; former security minister, Fernando Berrocal'; and Carlos
Francisco Echeverría, are seeking the nomination to head the party
into the presidential elections on Sunday 07 February 2010.
Pacheco explained that the convention will cost ¢150 million colones
and that in the beginning there would be five candidates. However,
now that there are four, each will have to ante up a little more to
meet the cost of the convention.
José Francisco Herrera had declared his intention to run for the
party nomination to be disputed by five. But last minute Herrera
decided to drop out leaving only four which are expected to formally
submit their nomination to the Tribunal Interno de Elecciones del
PLN by February 15.
"We had an agreement that all the candidates would cover the ¢150
million cost of the convention. We believe that the right thing is
for each of the four candidates to cover the cost of the the
non-participant. It is a question of party solidarity", said
Pacheco. |
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