Costa Rica elects first woman president!

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Costa Ricans voted on February 7th 2010 in the elections to choose a successor to Nobel Peace Prize winning  President Oscar Arias, a woman was elected to become the country’s first female head of state.

After polls closed at 6pm local time yesterday, all eyes were on whether the winning candidate would grasp the more than 40 per cent of the vote necessary to avoid a runoff. Polls showed Chinchilla garnering 46.8 percent of the vote, with 85 percent of election sites reporting. Second-place candidate Ottón Solis of the Citizen’s Action Party had 25.1 percent, while Otto Guevara of the Libertarian Movement had 20.9 percent.

Costa Rica has no army and boasts some of the world’s greenest energy credentials. It was ranked No. 1 last year in a “Happy Planet” Index, or HPI, published by a British entity name: The New Economics Foundation that combines measures of a country’s ecological footprint with citizen happiness and life expectancy.

Election day was festive throughout the nation, with video footage showing supporters of the main presidential candidates dressed in their respective campaign colors.

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Permalink | Comments (2) | Feb 8, 2010

2 Responses to “Costa Rica elects first woman president!”

  1. Kisha Says:
    March 9th, 2010 at 4:06 am

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  2. Andelia Says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 3:58 am

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