Víctor Hugo Morales Zapata

Víctor Hugo Morales Zapata is a Costa Rican politician. He was a member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC for its Spanish initials) and the third deputy for San José for the 2014 to 2018 assembly. He resigned the party in 2017.

Cooperative career Morales was a student activist and member of the now defunct People's Revolutionary Youth Movement (Juventud del Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo). Morales did not finish university studies.

Morales was a director of Instituto Nacional de Fomento Cooperativo (The National Institute for Cooperativism) for twelve years and President for eight years. In his roles, he promoted agricultural cooperatives.

Morales was a vocal opponent of the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which he claims created many political enemies for him. The issue stemmed around payments for an airplane ticket to Spain. Morales disputes that he should pay interest on the ticket. Through the matter, Morales claimed that Ottón Solís was persecuting him unjustly.

Because he was administratively and bureaucratically a member of PAC, he was still allowed to run under the party's banner and remain during national and local assemblies.

Election as deputy Morales could not be removed from the party in time for the elections, therefore he was elected as a deputy. There is still a possibility that Morales will not be seated with other PAC candidates in the assembly.