PUSC Party
Considering Not Fielding A Candidate For the
2010 Presidential Elections
Luis Fishman, the president of the Partido
Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC) which saw its
presidential candidate resign on Monday
after being sentenced to fives year prison
for "peculado", said he is evaluating the
possibility that the party not field a
candidate for the 2010 elections.
The party will be holding a national
assembly this weekend to decide on a course
of action, to either choose a candidate to
lead the party in the February 2007
elections, or sit this one out.
If they choose to sit it out, it would be an
historic event as part of an historic week
with the prison sentence of a former
president.
Fishman added that the idea of a "no
candidate" has support of many PUSC
legislators, given that there isn't
sufficient time to hold an internal election
of the party, leaving the choice of
candidate up to the national assembly. The
last day to register a candidate is October
23.
The comments by Fishman confirms that the
PUSC party really didn't have a Plan B as
Fishman was quoted as saying Monday
afternoon in the hallway of the Goicocheal
courthouse after hearing the Calderón
sentence.
Fishman and the party, it appears, had
placed all their faith and fate on Calderón
being found innocent and being able to
complete his mission of leading the party to
victory in 2010.
The PUSC has completed its requirements to
hand over to the Tribunal Supremo de
Elecciones (TSE) the names of the PUSC
candidates looking to fill the 57
legislative seats. The only name missing in
the "papeletas" is the presidential
candidate.
Former president Rafael Angel Calderón is
expected to take part in the PUSC party
decision and choice of candidate, if any.
For the time being only the name of
legislator Jorge Eduardo Sánchez is spoken
to take over the Calderón candidacy.
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Happy times at the PUSC. Calderón (left) smiling it up with Fishman.
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