Profile: Costa Rica’s first female president
Xinhua – Ruling party candidate Laura Chinchilla declared victory Sunday night in Costa Rica’s presidential election, after her main rivals, Otton Solis and Otto Guevara, conceded defeat and congratulated her as the country’s first female president in history. Chinchilla won 46.8 percent of the vote from 67.9 percent of the votes counted by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Under the country’s constitution, a candidate is required to gain at least 40 percent of the popular votes to win outright. Read article
