Centre-left wins Costa Rica poll after battle over same-sex marriage
2 April 2018 — 12:59pm
Mexico City: Costa Rica's centre-left presidential hopeful Carlos Alvarado Quesada took an insurmountable lead in a presidential runoff on Sunday, winning 61 per cent of the vote in a race that exposed deep divisions in the country over religion.
Costa Rica's electoral council announced the preliminary result with 91 per cent of polling stations counted.
Voters had the choice of a conservative Protestant singer, Fabricio Alvarado Munoz, as their president, representing a potential sharp turn from the country's embrace of gay rights.
Best known for religious dance songs and ballads, Alvarado Munoz, a 43-year-old former TV journalist, faced the centre-left ruling party candidate, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, 38, in a tight race that was roiled by a court ruling ordering the country to allow same-sex marriage.
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