US EditionCosta Rican president’s Cabinet resigns en masse to secure congressional majority
COSTA RICA, JUL 31 – Seven top officials resigned to run in the 2026 election aiming to secure a congressional supermajority for President Chaves's legislative agenda, officials said.
- On Wednesday in San José, President Rodrigo Chaves announced seven high-level resignations, including Vice President Stephan Brunner and ministers Nogui Acosta, Marta Esquivel and Esmeralda Britton.
- Strategic considerations drove the mass departures, Chaves said, to secure a congressional majority for the Sovereign Peoples Party before next year’s election.
- On the final eligibility day, officials resigned, including those competing in the February 2026 vote for president and 57 legislators.
- The Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica requested to lift Chaves’ immunity, coinciding with his cabinet resignations—the first such request since 1949, the Court press office said.
- Chaves affirmed he would stay in office, citing robust public support as reason not to lead the campaign personally.
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SAN JOSE (Reuters) -Seven Costa Rican government ministers including the vice president and finance minister have presented their resignations, President Rodrigo Chaves said on Wednesday, adding they decided "to seek new horizons to move the country forward."
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Seven leaders of the government of President Rodrigo Chaves announced their resignation this Wednesday at a key date: the legal limit they had to leave their posts if they wanted to seek a representative. Actually, the announcement was made by the president himself, who tried to avoid any direct allusion to the possible electoral intentions of the seven figures and only assured that they would seek “other directions and other ways to serve the h…
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