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Peanut
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« on: March 27, 2018, 05:03:03 PM »

The runoff for the Costa Rican Presidential election will be on April 1, this Sunday.
The two candidates are Carlos and Fabricio Alvarado, who finished the first round within 3 points of each other, with Fabricio narrowly ahead.
Carlos, a former Cabinet Minister, is the PAC (Citizens' Action Party) candidate, which has been in power for the last four years. However, Luis Solís's outgoing government is deeply unpopular and scandal-ridden, but he has strong support from young, secular, and educated voters in the most urban Provinces (San José, Heredia, and Cartago.)
Fabricio is the PRN (National Restoration Party) candidate, a Pastor-turned-Congressman who rose to prominence late in January by speaking out against same-sex marriage, though he has been strongly criticized for using religion to earn voters, something the Constitution forbids in Costa Rica. His party is a newcomer in the national scene: picture a Constitution candidate winning a Presidential in the US. His base of support is among the rural, more conservative provinces of Guanacaste, Limon, and Heredia.
This election shattered the two-party system, since the traditional PLN (slightly leftist) and PUSC (more right-wing) have both been locked out of the runoff, albeit the PLN remains the strongest party in the Legislative Assembly.
The election has been very divisive, and polling shows a very tight race-most networks are calling it a virtual tie.
Who do you think will win? Who'd you support?
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Peanut
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2018, 08:54:11 PM »

And here, as promised, is the second round map.

Cool!  It's really astounding how strong Fabricio was in the Eastern parts of the country.
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