He was a founding member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC for its Spanish initials) and ran as its three-time presidential candidate.

[3] In 2006, Solís led PAC against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which became a rallying cry for the party.

[4] In addition to opposing corruption and neoliberalism, one of the founding aims of PAC was to create a more open party system.

Ultimately, Arias won, though by only a few thousand votes over the 40% threshold required to avoid a runoff in an election marked by voter absenteeism.

[4] On 8 February 2011 Solís announced that he was abandoning politics for good, expressing his desire to create spaces for new emerging leaders with his party.

[6] Solís returned to politics two years later after serving as an Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida and in several other academic posts.

There are proposals that can be considered as coming from the center-right, such as the efficiency of the state, sound fiscal and monetary policies, the conviction that work is what takes to get people out of poverty.

Additionally, he argues that lowered trade barriers will cause a flood of cheap food products from the United States, which will force small-scale farmers out of the internal market.