00:00In Costa Rica, after the release of their preliminary results from the presidential
00:03legislative elections by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, official candidate
00:07Lauda Fernandez has emerged victorious with 41.51 percent of the vote.
00:11Fernandez from the right-wing Sovereign People's Party surpassed the 40 percent
00:15threshold required by Costa Rica electoral law winning the election in the first round,
00:21with a voter turnout of 72.36 percent, the highest since 2022. Fernandez defeated her
00:26closest rivals, Álvaro Ramos from the National Liberation Party, who at the time of their
00:31preliminary results released had 38.13 percent of the votes, and Claudia Robles from Citizen
00:36Agenda Coalition, who trails with 5.84 percent. This marks the second time in Costa Rica's
00:43204 years history that a woman has been elected president.
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