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Presidential Election Vote Count
Continues
Following the election almost
two weeks ago, the Tribunal
Supremo de Elecciones (TSE),
still has to announce a winner
and thus the new president.
The TSE has been busy since
counting votes in a manual count
when on Monday February 6 it
suspended the count, preferring
to count each vote at the TSE
offices in San José, rather than
rely on the counting by voting
stations and the electronic
reporting that was to have
announced a winner within hours
of the end of voting on Sunday.
The accumulated vote count as of
Friday that takes in 4.296 of
the 6.163 voting stations places
Ottón Solís of the Partido
Acción Cuidadana (PAC) in the
lead by 18.898 votes for Oscar
Arias of the Partido Liberación
Nacional (PLN).
At the time the vote was
suspended on Monday Feb 6, the
PLN was ahead by 3.250 votes, in
what is the closest presidential
race in Costa Rica's history.
The numbers at the close of
busines Friday stand as follows:
PLN (Oscar Arias) - 483.724
PAC (Ottón Solís) - 502.622
Total voting stations counted:
4.296 (69.71%)
Voting stations to be counter:
1.867 (30.29%)
Total number of voting stations:
6.163 (100%)
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