Uncertainty reigns in Costa Rica. Two days after runoff between the former president Jose Maria Figuereswhich obtained 27.32 percent of the votes in the first round, and Rodrigo Chavezformer World Bank official, with a 16.65, the call persists dead heat in the polls. What occurred on Chile with Gabriel Boricthe polls now reflect a reversal.
The intention to vote Keyscandidate for Democratic Social Progress Party (PPSD), would have an intention to vote the 41.4 percent. The flow of votes Figuerespresident between 1994 and 1998 and candidate for the National Liberation Party (PLN), would be from 38 percent. Pure math. The maximum of Figueres would be less than that of Chaves.
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Elections in Costa Rica
three and a half million of Ticos will define on Sunday who will be their president from May 8, 2022 until the same date in 2026. In the campaign, Figueres has invested 2.6 times more money than Chaves, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. The president’s successor Charles Alvaradojournalist and fiction writer, will receive one of the most stable and long-lived democracies in Latin America, but also economic and social problems. derivatives of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who is who?
Figueres67 years old, comes from a family with political legacy. His father founded the PLN and went President in the forties, fifties and seventies. During the first government of Oscar AriasBetween 1986 and 1990, he served as Minister of Foreign Trade and then of Agriculture and Livestock.
Keys, 60, has a doctorate in economics. He worked during over 30 at the World Bank. He was Finance Minister for six months in the current government, that of Alvaradoin 2019. Promotes accession from Costa Rica to Pacific alliance and eliminate tariffs on machinery and industrial raw materials, such as steel, iron, aluminum, paper, wood and electronic components.
73 percent of those consulted by the Center for Research and Political Studies of the University of Costa Rica does not identify with either of the two candidates. In two days it will be runoff and it will be defined if the new president is Jose Maria Figueres O Rodrigo Chavez.