Laura Said She Had Set Out To Win
After months of campaigning, for Laura
Chinchilla, Monday was the first day as
leader of the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN),
after obtaining the party's support on
Sunday.
Laura said yesterday that she is now focused
on uniting and readying the party for the
February 2010 elections where she could
become the first woman president of Costa
Rica.
The PLN leader skirted questions about her
rivals, Ottón Solís, of the Partido Acción
Ciudadana (PAC) and Rafael Ángel Calderón,
of the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC).
Laura said that she woke up Monday morning
with two strong feelings, one of utter
satisfaction and gratitude for the results
of the day earlier, and the second, an
overwhelming feeling of the many tasks ahead
of her.
For Chinchilla, she knew that she would win
the vote on Sunday. She said she put her
name on the candidate's list to win and win
she did, obtaining almost 55% of the popular
vote, 11 points ahead of rival, San Jose
mayor, Johnny Araya.
Chinchilla said that she knew on Friday that
Sunday's vote would go in her favour and now
she faces the task of winning the
presidential nod in February.
Of her opponents, she says she has the
greatest respect for Solís and Calderón -
who is in the middle of a corruption and
embezzlement trial that he had expected to
have ended and won by now - is just another
contender.
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Laura
Chinchilla Miranda, the first woman
presidential candidate and possible the
first woman president is she is elected in
February. |
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