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Article Excerpt
Costa Rica will elect a new president on Feb. 5, and indications are that former President Oscar Arias (1986-1990) of the Partido Liberacion Nacional (PLN) could win with a sufficient margin to end the contest in the first round. There is no great surprise here. As early as Dec. 4, 2005, the largest national newspaper La Nacion polled the electorate with the firm Unimer, finding the former president out in front of his chief rival Otton Solis of the Partido Accion Ciudadana (PAC) 45% to 21%. In Costa Rica, a candidate needs only 40% to be declared president without resort to a runoff.
After a lull during the Christmas and New Year holidays, campaigning returned with a vengeance to Costa Rica's streets and public spaces, with the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner Arias holding strong, but with renewed doubt that he would capture the needed 40%. Both Solis and third-running Otto Guevara of the Movimiento Libertario (ML) were predicting they...
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