Tuesday December 12, 2006
· PAC urges formation of a national dialogue table to agree on a Costa Rican Development Agenda
• The legislative faction, the Political Committee and National Executive Committee of the Citizen Action Party, addressed a letter to the public.
It states that the Free Trade Agreement negotiated between Central, Dominican Republic and the United States undermines the possibility that Costa Rica is developed, as it consolidates in a model that causes irreversible slow economic growth leads to poverty, inequality and greater exclusion.
"This FTA benefits multinationals and a small group of entrepreneurs related to the leadership of traditional politics. Therefore, the current President of the Republic refused to discuss during the campaign, "the letter said.
stress that Costa Ricans are opposed to NAFTA all social classes and of many sectors that have conducted rigorous, citing three of the four Universities College Council State, religious leaders and various sectors.
"In a responsible manner, our faction has sought by all legal means this discussion is of quality, ie, reflective, deep, friendly, and agreed with the complexity and length of the record of TLC (but) despite our attempts have several times violated the right of amendment of and the deputies, and legislative rules to try to pass in a hurry this Agreement ", is the public letter, referring to at least ten clear violations of the Rules of the Legislature.
"Late at night, guarded by hundreds of policemen, in a Prime Power de la República sitiado y hasta sobrevolado por un helicóptero, consumarán un acto antidemocrático”continúa la nota.
La estructura en pleno del Partido Acción Ciudadana reitera en la misiva su oposición a este TLC, denunciando a la ciudadanía “que ya existen evidencias claras de las flagrantes y reiteradas violaciones a nuestra institucionalidad, al principio democrático, al derecho parlamentario y a los valores de la ruta costarricense”.
Indican que el actual Gobierno “no tiene el mandato ciudadano para realizar una reforma constituyente mediante un supuesto acuerdo comercial” y reiteran su apoyo a “todos los grupos, foros y personas que manifiestan su will and right to demonstrate peacefully throughout the country. "
conclude by making a "call on the Government to consider the withdrawal from NAFTA and as a National Bureau of dialogue to agree on a Costa Rican Development Agenda and to take together, as a country-a renegotiation strategy which defend the interests of Costa Rica ".
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