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COSTA RICA: PARTIDO DE LIBERACION NACIONAL COULD LOSE MORE THAN ELECTION BECAUSE OF HEAVY BORROWING TO FINANCE CAMPAIGN.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 10-JAN-02 		Format: Online - approximately 966 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
By Tim Rogers

[The following article is reprinted with permission of the weekly newspaper The Tico Times in San Jose, Costa Rica. It first appeared in the Dec. 21, 2001, edition of the newspaper.]

If the most recent voter-intention poll is an accurate gauge of what will happen here on the Feb. 3 election day, it appears that someone stands to lose a lot of money on the Partido de Liberacion Nacional (PLN) presidential campaign.

What is not so clear is how much will be owed after Feb. 3, and who will get stuck paying the bill.

The Unimer poll published Dec. 9 in the daily La Nacion showed that if the election were held that day, the PLN's Rolando Araya would win 22% of the vote, making his party eligible for around US$3.3 million in retroactive state funding to cover campaign expenditures.

The...

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