During the current political campaign, Johnny Araya has not used the history of the National Liberation Party (PLN) at the head of the government. And it's far from it.
This characteristic cannot be assumed as a distance between the PLN candidate and former president Óscar Arias. (2006-2010) and with the current president, Laura Chinchilla (2010-2014), why there has never been any relationship between the former mayor of San Joseph and those leaders, estimated his campaign manager,Antonio Álvarez Desanti.
Araya's spokesman indicated that in his current stage, The campaign aims to publicize the works that Johnny Araya promoted from the capital's mayor's office.
NLP in the background
In a second stage, Alvarez advanced, the campaign will focus on disseminating Araya's proposals to govern the country.
“Our campaign is proactive and looks to the future and not to history. That's why, It is not important to show off former President Arias and President Chinchilla, if they are not the candidate”, said.
But, Which PLN works could Araya appeal to during the campaign??
“To the decision to build the new Cañas-Liberia highway, to promoting infrastructure projects in the Caribbean, such as the Moín Container Terminal, the strengthening of the scholarship program 'Avancemos' and the transformation of the Institute of Agrarian Development (IDA) at the Rural Development Institute”, Gonzalez said, appointed by President Chinchilla to preside over that institution, position that he left to join the PLN campaign.
different campaign
Analysts believe there are additional reasons why the Johnny Araya campaign does not include achievements of past liberationist administrations..
The political scientist Carlos Murillo cited that it is not convenient for Araya to link up with the PLN because his government would be the third of a party to which the ills of the country are attributed and, on the other hand, it is not convenient for Johnny Araya to say that he is going to continue with works of the previous presidents of the PLN because his opponents could attack him even more.
Constantine Urcuyo, political scientist and academic, agree that it is The distance between Araya and the previous leaders of the PLN was notorious., which he considered as the correct decision.
This is due to the ideological distance that Araya has due to the bad image that the Government of President Laura Chinchilla carries..
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