Comments on: Johnny Araya considering taking his case to Costa Rica’s highest court https://insidecostarica.com/2015/04/22/johnny-araya-considering-taking-case-costa-ricas-highest-court/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 By: Ken Morrishttps://insidecostarica.com/2015/04/22/johnny-araya-considering-taking-case-costa-ricas-highest-court/#comment-10980 Ken Morris Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:38:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=17568#comment-10980 I can’t imagine that Araya has a constitutional case, since he’s not (as I understand it) banned from political participation. The courts are merely upholding the party’s right to ban him from running for office on its ticket. Araya is free to join another party or even start his own and run for office, isn’t he?

The stronger constitutional case would seem to be to challenge the prohibition against candidates dropping out of a run-off race. Shouldn’t everyone, including politicians, be free to quit whatever they’re doing? Though I guess Araya wouldn’t get anywhere challenging this.

The really strange thing about all this is that Araya apparently believes that he could run for election as mayor and win after losing his party’s support and embarrassing himself nationally. Even stranger is that he could be right. Would voters really support this guy now?

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