Voters favour peace platform
NZPA-PA San Jose Oscar Arias, who promised to keep his country out of Central America’s wars, has easily swept aside a more conservative challenger to win the Presidency of Costa Rica.
In returns yesterday from 22 per cent of the nation's 6751 polling booths, Arias had 53.6 per cent of the votes, to 45.3 per cent for his main challenger, Rafael Calderon. The London-trained economist, aged 45, will become the country’s youngest chief executive, keeping the President’s office in the hands of his National Liberation Party for another four years. Arias will succeed Luis Alberto Monge, who was elected Costa Rica’s thirtieth president on the Liberation Party ticket in 1982 but could not, by law, succeed himself. It was only the second time in nearly 50 years that the party in power has not been thrown out of office by the voters. Costa Rica is a key United States ally in Central America.
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Press, 4 February 1986, Page 10
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