[1] He was the presidential candidate of the Social Christian Unity Party for the national elections held in February 2010, but resigned his candidacy on 5 October 2009, when he was sentenced to five years in prison for two counts of corruption.

He attended his secondary education at the Colegio La Salle in San José, Costa Rica.

Calderon Fournier was elected secretary of secondary education issues of the Partido Unificacion Nacional (PUN).

[citation needed] He was elected congressman in 1974 and served for two consecutive terms as chairman of the Committee on Social Affairs.

Among other important bills, the commission adopted the Law on Social Development and Family Allowances, which gave the country a non-contributory pension scheme, which now covers more than a hundred thousand elderly[citation needed].

Born in Diriamba, Nicaragua, on 14 March 1949, son of Dr. Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia, former President of the Republic, who was in exile in that country because of the civil war in 1948.

Eliminated most tax and customs exemptions industrial awards, to remove privileges and vested interests for generations.

Inflation stabilized, liberalized and controlled the exchange rate of the dollar and revalued the currency, stocks that attracted more investments to the country.

Granted a free voucher housing that benefited low-income families, but the social sector (health, education and public safety), suffered a deterioration.

Walter Reiche (an executive from Costa Rican firm Corporación Fischel) was sentenced to serve four years of prison.

[10] Calderon's wife, Mrs. Gloria Bejarano Almada, who currently serves as a deputy at the Asamblea Legislativa (congress of the country) and who is a member of the parliament's directorate, was sentenced to pay US$70,000 to the Costa Rican government for her participation in the scandal.

[11] On 13 April, the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación informed that Finland's attorney general will press charges against three executives from the Finnish firm Instrumentarium.

The three executives will be charged of crimes connected with corruption and fraud related to a loan of $39.5 million granted by the Finnish government to the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (the Costa Rican agency in charge of public hospitals) and intended to finance the purchase of medical equipment.