Three Costa Rican ministers resign to run for elections
09:10, 6 August 2009
SAN JOSE. August 6. KAZINFORM Three Costa Rican ministers resigned from their posts Wednesday so as to be named as deputy candidates for the ruling National Liberation Party in the general election next year; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
Finance Minister Guillermo Zuliga, Labor Minister Francisco Morales and Justice Minister Viviana Martin quitted after a cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in San Jose.
Meanwhile, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias swore in Jenny Phillips as finance minister, Alvaro Gonzalez as labor minister, and Hernando Paris as justice minister.
Arias thanked the three ministers for their work in the government for the past three and a half years; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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