Ex-president heads into Costa Rica run-off, ex-finance minister likely awaits [View all]

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Former President José María Figueres comfortably led the preliminary vote count in Sunday's Costa Rican presidential election, with former Finance Minister Rodrigo Chaves poised to defy expectations to face him in a second-round run-off.

Figueres, 67, was seen winning 27.3% of the vote based on returns from nearly three-quarters of polling stations, with economist Chaves, 60, pulling past evangelical Christián Alvarado to carve out an advantage in second with 16.6% of the tally.

At: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/costa-ricans-head-polls-largely-undecided-runoff-expected-2022-02-06/

Former Costa Rican Finance Minister Rodrigo Chaves and former President José María Figueres will face off in the Central American nation's presidential runoff on April 3rd.

Either of the two Harvard graduates - the progressive Figueres and the more conservative Chaves - will inherit an economy battered by the collapse in international tourism during the ongoing Covid pandemic.