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June
9th A National Holiday?
What Are Some of The Pressing
Problems Facing the New
Administration?
The
new government of Oscar Arias
has said it may declare June 9,
the day of the opening game of
the FIFA World Cup 2006 between
Costa Rica and Germany, a
national holiday.
Kick off time in Germany 18:00
or 10am in Costa Rica.
The new administration is also
considering the idea of going to
a Daylight Savings Time, moving
the clocks one hour ahead. A
recent poll by local television
channel 7 showed that 39% of
8.226 respondents like the idea
while 61% said they were against
it.
However, more pressing matters
are facing the new
administration.
Oscar Arias in his second term
in office faces many challenges:
1. - Reducing poverty
2. - Dealing with Fiscal reforms
3. - The approval of the free
trade agreement (TLC)
4. - Infrastructure, especially
repair of the country's roads
5. - Public insecurity
It won't be easy for the new
administration to solve these
and many more problems of the
country, especially in the face
of the rising price of crude oil
on international market and a
divided Legislative Assembly,
that even at the best of times,
is slow to make a decision or
approve new initiatives.
But, more important is that
Arias won the election by a
small margin of 18.000 votes,
meaning he doesn't have a clear
majority of people behind him as
it had been expected and the
pre-election polls had
indicated.
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