Laura Chinchilla elected as first female President of Costa Rica

Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | Filed under Costa Rica Headlines

president of costa ricaby TCRN Staff

The liberationist Laura Chinchilla Miranda Sunday became the first woman to occupy the presidential chair in Costa Rica.

This political scientist reached 46.7% strongly support, nearly doubling the votes received by her nearest contender: Otton Solis of the Citizens Action Party (25.1%)

Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement candidate, came in third with 20.8%.

The advantage that the verdiblanca achieved since the first preliminary results released by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), at 8:30 p. m. Motivated the rivals to make an early admission of defeat.

“I commend Laura Chinchilla, who will be president of the Republic. Has a good defense of what to do, and hope that as the first woman president, assumes the gender equality agenda,” Solis said in a heartfelt speech he gave at the headquarters of the CAP, Montes de Oca.

The trend was maintained at 10:54 p. m. with 84% of the votes counted. According to a telephone survey conducted last night by Unimer for La Nacion, four out of ten people who were supportive of Chinchilla seek “to ensure continuity of the current government.”


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