COSTA RICAN TIMES
Costa Rica News – Costa Ricans will pick their next president Sunday, deciding between Evangelical singer and preacher Fabricio Alvarado or his distant cousin Carlos Alvarado, a novelist and former rock-and-roller.
Polls opened at 6 a.m. and will close at 6 p.m. with 3.3 million registered voters, and results expected later tonight. The winner will take office on May 8.
Fabricio Alvarado, 43, won the most votes in a first round vote in February after he opposed a ruling by an international court that supported gay marriage in the country. He served one term as a lawmaker and leads polls heading into Sunday’s election.
Ruling party candidate Carlos Alvarado, a 38-year-old former labor minister and rock-and-roll singer, backed the international court ruling and promised to get religion out of
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