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Weekly Report - 10 April 2014 (WR-14-14)

COSTA RICA: Solís secures presidency with record support

Luis Guillermo Solís, of the left-of-centre Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) was duly confirmed as president-elect of Costa Rica on 6 April after triumphing in a run-off against a rival who ceased campaigning and to all intents and purposes withdrew from the contest a month earlier. The most important result for Solís was the turnout, having publicly expressed his ‘terror’ that high abstention could damage the legitimacy of his presidency. Solís won the backing of 1.3m voters, the equivalent of one-third of the electoral roll. This surpassed the 1m threshold, which no previous presidential candidate had ever reached, allowing Solís to claim that he had won a “clear and decisive mandate”.

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