Costa Rica will have a second round of elections
The candidates José María Figueres and Rodrigo Chaves will face each other in a second round of elections on April 3rd
The candidate of the National Liberation Party (PLN) for the Presidency of Costa Rica, José María Figueres, and the candidate of the Social Democratic Progress Party (PPSD), Rodrigo Chaves, will meet in a second round on April 3 after a first round this Sunday.
According to electoral legislation, to avoid the second round, a candidate must achieve 40 % of the vote, but none of the candidates achieved this result.
The former president of Costa Rica, Figueres, obtained 27.4 % of the votes and Rodrigo Chaves, who has been the great surprise of these elections, has 16.7 %, with 63.9 % of the polling stations counted, according to data from the Supreme Court of Elections of Costa Rica (TSE).
While the evangelical Fabricio Alvarado of the New Republic Party has reached 15.4 %. This Monday the TSE will finish confirming the preliminary results and as of Tuesday the definitive count of the votes will begin.
Nearly 3.5 million Costa Ricans were qualified this Sunday to exercise their right to vote in the 6,767 polling stations, distributed in 2,152 voting centers throughout the country, in a process that has been supervised by national and foreign observers.
K. Tovar
Source: Telesur and agencies
