Don't Loose Rules on Political Debt

In Costa Rica, parties participating in elections are reimbursed their justified and checked expenses. Thus avoiding fraudulent reported expenses that would seek to steal money from the state.

Now, representatives are discussing to lighten the requirements to ask for these reimbursements, by removing the background checks performed by the state. The approval of such a norm would only boost and encourage corruption. There have been several attempts from some political parties to access this money from the state for inexistent expenses, and these have been discovered and reported with the procedures stated in the current law.

If the mentioned law project is to be approved, Costa Rica's finances and democratic system will be putted at risk.