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The Bukelization of Costa Rica

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Costa Rica goes to the polls this Sunday, February 1, when a new president and a new Legislative Assembly will be elected. The candidate Laura Fernández, from President Rodrigo Chaves’s Sovereign People’s party, is placed very high at the head of the polls, faced with a decimated opposition; and even if it is necessary from a second round, the official party would obtain, according to the same polls, more than 40 deputies out of a total of 57, e…

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Costa Rica goes to the polls this Sunday, February 1, when a new president and a new Legislative Assembly will be elected. The candidate Laura Fernández, from President Rodrigo Chaves’s Sovereign People’s party, is placed very high at the head of the polls, faced with a decimated opposition; and even if it is necessary from a second round, the official party would obtain, according to the same polls, more than 40 deputies out of a total of 57, e…

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Costa Ricans come to the polls next Sunday to elect the president for the period 2026-2030 from a diverse ballot of 20 candidates, in which the favorites are the right-wing official and former Minister of Planning Laura Fernández, the former first lady (2018-2022) of center-left Claudia Dobles and the social-democratic economist Álvaro Ramos.

Presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in Costa Rica on Sunday. The favorite for the highest office is the right-wing former minister Laura Fernández, who has promised a rigorous crackdown on drug crime. Fernández's rivals include the left-wing politician Ariel Robles and the moderate-conservative economist Álvaro Ramos.

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SAN JOSÉ — The candidate of the Sovereign People’s Party, Laura Fernández, starts as the great favorite for the presidential elections this Sunday in Costa Rica driven by the high popularity of President Rodrigo Chaves and despite the strong insecurity that the country is living. Fernández was chosen to present herself as the continuity of the Chaves government but by a party other than the one that brought the current president to power in 2022…

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Costa Rica will hold elections on Sunday, February 1st, to decide who will be the new president, replacing conservative Rodrigo Chaves. Pre-election polls favor Laura Fernandez, Minister of the Presidency from June 2024, the outgoing government's official candidate. She faces a field of 19 candidates, only five of whom have significant statistical support, but none are likely to surpass 10 percent of the vote. Fernandez, 39, has voting intention…

Costa Rica, Jan 30, 2026 (ATB Digital) .- Some 3.7 million Costa Ricans are called to the polls on February 1 with the official candidate, Laura Fernández, as their favorite. Some 3.7 million Costa Rican citizens are called to the polls on February 1 with the official candidate, Laura Fernández, as their favourite. Costa Ricans lived with joy this Thursday (29.01.2026) the last activities of the electoral campaign that give way to the period of …

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ATB Digital broke the news in on Friday, January 30, 2026.
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