Tourism Minister Expected To Resign Today
September 10th, 2009 | by admin |
The ministro de Turismo, Carlos Ricardo Benavides, is expected to tender his resignation today to join the presidential campaign of Laura Chinchilla.
Benavides is expected to form part of the Comando de Campaña committee for the Partido Liberación Nacional to get Chinchilla elected president in 2010.
The departure is no surprise. For months it has been rumoured that Benavides would leave his post to join the Chinchilla campaign, who has been a key figure in party politics, heading the PLN legislators in the previous government before being appointed to the ministry by president Arias.
Benavides and Chinchilla have a history of working together, not only in the legislature, but also in the current government when Chinchilla held the post of the country’s vice-president.
