Rodrigo Chaves, president of Costa Rica, announced that he will formalize the application for the accession of the Central American country to the Comprehensive and Progressive Treaty of Trans-Pacific Partnership (Cptpp).

Chaves’ goal is to create jobs and attract foreign investment once the application to become a member of the treaty is approved. Let us remember that the Cptpp groups 11 countries of Asia and America. So it would be a door to new trade relations with these economies.

The application for membership is the first step in promoting entrepreneurship, support for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as Costa Rica’s aspiration for the creation of new jobs. In addition to sharing experiences with Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam.

Chaves has pointed out that according to current estimates, the Cptpp integrates about 17 % of world trade. Being part of the treaty, where strong economies participate, will offer Costa Rica the opportunity to position its products in a broad consumer market. In addition to attracting international trade to the country.

Among the items that Chaves hopes to include in the commercial activity of the agreement, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, is coffee, meat, fruit juices, foliage, hot sauces, pineapple, as well as medical prostheses manufactured in Costa Rica.

M.Pino

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Source: americaeconomia

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The candidate of the National Liberation Party (PLN) for the Presidency of Costa Rica, José María Figueres, and the candidate of the Social Democratic Progress Party (PPSD), Rodrigo Chaves, will meet in a second round on April 3 after a first round this Sunday.

According to electoral legislation, to avoid the second round, a candidate must achieve 40 % of the vote, but none of the candidates achieved this result.

The former president of Costa Rica, Figueres, obtained 27.4 % of the votes and Rodrigo Chaves, who has been the great surprise of these elections, has 16.7 %, with 63.9 % of the polling stations counted, according to data from the Supreme Court of Elections of Costa Rica (TSE).

While the evangelical Fabricio Alvarado of the New Republic Party has reached 15.4 %. This Monday the TSE will finish confirming the preliminary results and as of Tuesday the definitive count of the votes will begin.

Nearly 3.5 million Costa Ricans were qualified this Sunday to exercise their right to vote in the 6,767 polling stations, distributed in 2,152 voting centers throughout the country, in a process that has been supervised by national and foreign observers.

K. Tovar

Source: Telesur and agencies

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