Víctor Morales Mora

Víctor Manuel Morales Mora is a Costa Rican politician and lawyer. He has served as a government minister in three different administrations and served a deputy. He was the mayor of Aserrí between 2010 and 2014.

Biographic information Morales was born in Poás de Aserrí. He grew up in Aserrí proper. He studied at Andrés Corrales Mora Elementary and the Liceo de Aserrí High School, where he was the President of his student government. In 1982, he was president of the group Social Christian Youth, a political advocacy organization. Between 1990 and 1992, Morales served as Vice-Minister of Labor to Rafael Calderón Fournier.

In 1992, he was elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, serving only two years. Morales was one of a number of PUSC members to abandon the party after a string of corruption scandals.

While teaching law between 2006 and 2010, Morales was also a legal adviser.

Mayor of Aserrí

In 2010, Morales was elected mayor of Aserrí, a municipality in the San José with a population of nearly 60,000 He ran as part of a coalition of parties: PAC, PUSC, and Accessibility without Exclusion (PASE for its Spanish initials).

With less than a month left in his term as mayor, President-elect Luis Guillermo Solís appointed Morales to his cabinet as Minister of Labor.