Sources: Diario Extra (San José) and Costa Rica public holidays (qppstudio.net). An initiative in Parliament to make the Guanacaste Annexation public holiday always fall on its historic date of July 25 (as opposed to the nearest Monday, as is the case since law 8604 of 2007) has been thwarted by a procedural deluge of 237 motions tabled by the Libertarian Party (who had instituted the 2007 law moving some public holidays to the nearest Monday).Interviewed on the matter, Libertarian Party leader, Mario Quirós, said that he was not against the proposal, per se, but that it took a long time for workers to get the benefit of long week-ends, and that he would not let one of these long weekends be taken away in a rushed procedure. This probably means that the bill fixing the Guanacaste Annexation public holiday to July 25 will eventually pass, but not in time for 2008.
Recall that, on August 10, 2007, a similar bill was passed, making the observance of Mothers' Day fixed, on August 15th, rather than the nearest Monday. However, due to the fact that the bill was passed less than a week before the 2007 occurrence of that public holiday, it only came into effect in 2008.
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