Ruling party candidate Carlos Alvarado elected Costa Rica’s next president

Supporters the presidential candidate of Costa Rica’s governing Citizen Action Party (PAC), Carlos Alvarado, celebrate in San Jose on April 01, 2018.
Carlos Alvarado, the candidate for Costa Rica’s center-left ruling party, is to become his country’s next president after an election run-off Sunday against an evangelical preacher, according a near-complete vote count by electoral authorities. Alvarado, a 38-year-old former labor minister, won 60.66 percent of the ballots, against 39.33 percent for his ultra-conservative rival, Fabricio Alvarado (no relation), the Supreme Electoral Tribunal said, based on returns from more than 90 percent of polling stations.
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