US EditionElection of the Day: Costa Rica
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A total of 3.7 million registered people are called to elect the future rulers of this Central American country.
San José, Costa Rica.- Laura Fernández, 39, and admirer of the anti-pandilla war of the Salvadoran President, Nayib Bukele, appears as a favorite to be elected today. Fernández bases her proposal on the hard hand against narco violence that has increased in a country considered for decades to be one of the safest in Latin America. Excited by insecurity and the setback of social achievements, some 3.7 million voters are called to vote this Sunday.
Election of the Day: Costa Rica
Today is the day for the first round election in the selection of Costa Rica’s 50th president. (Fun fact: the current regime in Costa Rica has a good case for “third oldest continuous presidential regime” behind the US and Chile (1830-1973). There’s a case for putting them 4th behind Uruguay (1830-1933), depending on whether one classifies the spot of trouble that regime ran into in the late 1870’s as regime change, a controversy I can offer no …
Some 3.7 million Costa Ricans come to the polls this Sunday to elect their next president in a day marked by the rise of the official Laura Fernández, who arrives as the great favorite after capitalizing on the social unrest over the advance of drug trafficking. The candidate, a 39-year-old conservative political scientist and political heir of the current president Rodrigo Chaves, focuses her proposal on a frontal fight against crime that inclu…
At the age of 39, the official candidate leads all the polls.
Celso Borges, before becoming a soccer player, is a Costa Rican citizen and this is how he responded during election day. Costa Rica began its electoral process on February 1, 2026, with more than 3.7 million citizens called to the polls to elect president, vice-presidents and deputies for the period 2026-2030. Due to the current election day in the country, the 2026 Closing Tournament was not held this weekend. Even so, Celso Borges, a leader …
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