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May 09Epsy screams, PAC barely responds
It would be hard to determine what are the reasons –should one call the issues instead- that have led the second most powerful political force of 2006 into something of a popularity warp zone. The PAC´s convention held last Sunday was for sure material of great scrutiny by the media, but due to it´s membership dispositions one of relative poor attendance by the electorate, and this wouldn´t be the only one factor in a list of several unsatisfying vectors.
A new party known as PAP or AP (Party of the Patriotic Alliance) led by Mariano Figueres –brother of the ex president of the same family branch- and disenfranchised liberacionista Rolando Araya Monge rises now claiming to truly convey the message of the national movement clearly identified with the opposition to the free trade treaty with the USA. The PAC thus rely now on its party´s overstated appeal and that of his newly appointed 2 times presidential candidate Otton Solis. The struggle that crippled the shine of the same cannot be traced only to the split between Solis and Campbell but much longer ago to the mishandled rejection to the results of the election to which Arias made the presidency by the grip of mere numeric luck.
Even if Solis carries with him the ideals that make the backbone of the Social Action Party, the arguments as to the permanence of a brotherly and agreeable bond between its members could be as easily dismissed as Epsy´s “caucasianness”.
Most recently Campbell argued the Convention would not only prove unsatisfactory in demographic scale alone –due to their obsecate setting which rules out the admittance of any vote from any other citizens rather than those coming from those who did inscribe themselves in a somewhat obscure and ultimately ineffective process- but also in equal opportunities as the very electoral sheets did not regard the input of their visually impaired. A recourse presented before election day to impede the vote reception due to arguable result issuance was dismissed on early as well.
Cambell´s and Macaya´s (who was he anyways?) fore-sung defeat did not necessarily point out the party´s general immaturity as a political massive force but in fact the relative easiness with which it appears to deal with it´s internal problems, dismissing the small problems in direct forfeiture of their supposed principles, and the arrogant posture of it´s politically engorged personas. Cradles of mud don´t seem to live up to their messiah promises as often as it becomes involved with politics.