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Article: COSTA RICA: GOVERNING-PARTY CANDIDATE ABEL PACHECO WINS SECOND-ROUND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
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- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- April 11, 2002
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Abel Pacheco of Costa Rica's governing Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC) won the presidential runoff election April 7, defeating Partido de Liberacion Nacional (PLN) candidate Rolando Araya. The election failed to ignite public enthusiasm resulting in record abstention. The campaign was marred by campaign-finance irregularities that electoral officials were unequipped to cope with.
The 68-year old Pacheco--a psychiatrist and television personality--took 58% of the vote in a easy win that was expected since the first-round election on Feb. 4 knocked out third-party candidate Otton Solis of the new Partido Accion Ciudadana (PAC). Solis' impressive 26.4% ...