Boynton wrote:
1. The indoor mask mandate is in force if not enforced. It is expected to be eliminated before the current administration leaves on May 8.
2. When official opinion polling ended last week, Figureres and the PLN were ahead Chaves and the PPSD. Of course 4 years ago Carlos Alvarado was a surprise winner over Fabricio Alvarado. Voter absenteeism is expected to be high. I am not a citizen, so I cannot vote. Chaves is my preferred candidate but most Ticos I know lean toward Figgy. Chaves' wife is way hotter.
3. Regardless of which candidate wins, there will be minimal impact on the hobby.
I think you may be right about Figueres. Nothing succeeds like success, and last time Figueres was president the country was an exciting place with good things in its future.
Figueres brought Intel to Heredia, and installed the first 400,000 digital GSM cell phone lines in Costa Rica. So what if he took a multi-million dollar kick back and had to hide in Spain to wait out the heat.
The point however, is that the current government is as lame a duck can be. They don't even get a chance in the run off election on Sunday.
The mask mandate has come to feel as popular as the current government. No one is going to be sad to see the Covid president go away along with the masks, the QR codes, capacity controls, traffic restrictions, and assorted bullshit.
If only the double digit unemployment, rampant corruption, price inflation and half the workforce in the informal economy were so easy to get rid of as well.