Carlos Calleja, leader of the most influential supermarket chain in El Salvador, is now the ARENA party's candidate for the presidential elections in February 2019.
Entrepreneur Carlos Calleja, 42 years old and current vice president of Grupo Calleja, in charge of the supermarket chain Súper Selectos, is seeking to become the president of the Republic on February 3 of next year, after winning internal elections held by the opposition party ARENA.
Three days after the presidential elections in Honduras, all of the votes have not yet been counted, and as tension escalates, businessmen request political leaders to recognize the results declared by the Electoral Tribunal.
The most recent data published by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras shows that as of Tuesday, November 28, only 59% of the Receiving Electoral Tables (MER in Spanish) had been processed. With this data, the person emerging as the potential winner is the engineer Salvador Nasralla, candidate for the opposition Alliance against Dictatorship and known in Honduras as "the Man from the television", because of his long career as an event spokesman and sports communicator.
Fitch Ratings is warning that political fragmentation faced by the new government makes correcting the fiscal problem affecting the country very difficult.
The rating agency also highlighted as an issue the fact that "it is not yet fully clear how President-elect Solis will address the fiscal problem."
"The fiscal deterioration involves challenges in stabilizing the budgetary burden and the ability of authorities to respond to external shocks that may come in the future, which could erode the business climate and consumer confidence."
The President elected with 80% of the votes in the second round, historian and professor Luis Guillermo Solis will have to clear up as soon as possible the uncertainty surrounding the practical line of his government.
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When it is not essential, as it apparently is, to say in every place what the voters from each district want to hear, the President-elect Luis Guillermo Solís will have to make concrete decisions, and implement them:
Lack of clear leadership, internal chaos in the main political parties and parliamentary fragmentation are threatening Costa Rica's business climate.
Contradictory statements over the legal certainty of the project for a mega containerport in Moin ($1 billion), made by the very probable next president of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis, and the founder of his party (Citizen Action) and deputy chief of the legislative group, Otton Solis have generated understandable alarm in the business community.
The three presidential candidates at the top of the polls say they will not propose tax reforms during their tenure.
Capital.com.pa reports that "The issue was discussed at the last forum organized by the Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDA), which evaluated the economic and fiscal impact of electoral promises."
Jose Domingo Arias (Democratic Change), Juan Carlos Navarro (Democratic Revolutionary Party), and Juan Carlos Varela (Panamanian Party) are the three candidates for the Presidency of Panama that have the highest chance of winning, according to polls. The three "... assure that they will not impose new taxes."
The Presidential candidate Luis Guillermo Solis has promised to respect the contract with the Dutch company APM for the construction of a new container dock at Moin.
The likely winner of the presidential election has backtracked on his campaign ads which stated he would "review the ports concession contracts."
The center-left candidate, Luis Guillermo Solís, would review the conditions to join the block if he wins on April 6th.
The presidential candidate of the Partido Acción Ciudadana, Luis Guillermo Solís, agrees with the industrial sector on the process of tariff reduction that Costa Rica would have to make in order to join the Pacific Alliance involves risks that should be considered carefully.
In a speech given to business leaders the presidential candidate Luis Guillermo Solis delivered a message of reassurance about economic development policies.
The presidential candidate for the Citizen Action Party met with a union of private companies in Costa Rica in order to send a message of peace and openness, should he obtain the votes needed in the April 6th election to assume the presidency.
In scenarios where no candidate managed to win a direct election, the results of the first round confirmed the trends of voters to the left in both countries.
In a second round on March 9th in El Salvador and on April 6th in Costa Rica the next presidents of both nations will be chosen, after two elections ended with no candidate receiving the required majority to be declared president.
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