1st Ld: Chinchilla leads in Costa Rican presidential election
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[February 07, 2010]

1st Ld: Chinchilla leads in Costa Rican presidential election

SAN JOSE, Feb 07, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Ruling party candidate Laura Chinchilla has taken the lead in Sunday's Costa Rican presidential election grabbing 48.66 percent of the vote with 11.35 percent of the votes counted, the electoral commission announced.



Her nearest rivals are Otton Solis of the Citizen Action Party (PAC) with 22.46 percent, and Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement Party (ML)with 21.31 percent.

To become the country's first female president, Chinchilla must capture at least 40 percent of the popular vote. If she fails to eclipse that mark, she has to compete in a presidential run-off slated for April. 4.


The presidential vote is part of the general elections in Costa Rica which kicked off on Sunday morning. Some 2.8 million voters were choosing a new president who will serve a four-year term, two vice presidents, 57 parliamentarians and 495 local deputies.

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