Laura Fernandez leads early results in Costa Rica’s presidential election

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Right-wing campaigner from the governing PPSO leads statesmanlike contention with 53.01 percent of the vote, aboriginal results show.

Published On 2 Feb 2026

The right-wing law-and-order candidate, Laura Fernandez, has taken a commanding pb successful Costa Rica’s statesmanlike election, according to aboriginal results.

With ballots from 31 percent of polling stations counted precocious connected Sunday, Fernandez, of the governing Sovereign People Party (PPSO), had 53.01 percent of the vote, the results showed.

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Alvaro Ramos of the centre-left National Liberation Party ‍was successful 2nd spot ⁠with 30.05 percent, portion erstwhile First Lady Claudia Dobles was successful 3rd spot with 3.9 percent.

Fernandez ‌needs astatine ‌least 40 percent to triumph the predetermination outright and debar ‌a run-off connected April 5.

The 39-year-old person is the handpicked successor of incumbent President Rodrigo Chaves, and campaigned connected continuing his pugnacious information policies.

The historically peaceful Central American nation’s transgression surge successful caller years could beryllium a deciding origin for galore voters. Some responsibility Chaves’s presidency for failing to bring the rates down, but galore spot his confrontational benignant arsenic the champion accidental for Costa Rica to tame the violence.

Fernandez was antecedently Chaves’s curate of nationalist readying and economical argumentation and, much recently, his curate of the presidency.

Costa Ricans besides voted for the 57-seat National Assembly. Chaves’s enactment is expected to marque gains, but possibly not execute the supermajority helium and Fernandez person called for, which would let their enactment to take Supreme Court magistrates, for example.

Twenty contenders were seeking the presidency, but nary campaigner different than Fernandez and Ramos reached 5 percent successful the preliminary and partial results.

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