Carlos Alvarado, candidate of the Acción Ciudadana party, said on Thursday that if he becomes president, he wants to focus the first 100 days of the government on results.
Alvarado participated in the Café Politics program of Channel 7, where he listed three specific promises that he will seek to fulfill in that first period of and that he intends to highlight in the speech of that moment.
What I want in the first 100 days is to present results,”
said the presidential candidate.
The three projects that Alvarado wants to resolve as of May 8th, according to what has been said so far are:
1-Substantial progress in the fiscal project and public employment to give stability to the country.
Currently, the law of strengthening public finances, which includes VAT, income, and public employment, in addition to fiscal rule, is in a special commission and is almost a fact that would be read in the new legislature, in the second or third week of May, when it has already assumed the new Executive Power.
2-Seek to advance in projects of simplification of procedures in institutions such as Setena or customs, because that’s part of the bureaucracy containing the economic growth of the country.
3-Progress in infrastructure works, mainly attacking the bottlenecks in the Metropolitan Area, to eliminate road congestion. He says that the money is ready to execute those works.
Four years ago, President Luis Guillermo Solís had also made promises for his first 100 days, during which time his image deteriorated due to non-compliance.
Solis had promised to lower gasoline and electric rates , something he did not manage to do. Another of his promises was to close the Directorate of Intelligence and Security and that he would not have Mariano Figueres in his government, but then appointed him as director of the DIS, thus squandering the two promises made.