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Center-left candidate wins Costa Rica presidential election – Metro US

Center-left candidate wins Costa Rica presidential election

Center-left candidate wins Costa Rica presidential election
Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s center-left presidential hopeful Carlos Alvarado Quesada took an insurmountable lead in a Sunday presidential runoff, winning 61 percent of the vote in a race that exposed deep divisions in the country over religion.

Costa Rica’s electoral council announced the preliminary result with 91 percent of polling stations counted.

(Reporting by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)