Presidential Runoff Elections Needed in Costa Rica, El Salvador - VOA

Presidential Runoff Elections Needed in Costa Rica, El Salvador by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

Monday February 3rd, 2014 at 1:59 PM

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Preliminary presidential election results from Costa Rica and El Salvador indicate both Central American countries will hold runoff balloting. In Costa Rica, ruling National Liberation Party candidate Johnny Araya and Citizen Action Party candidate Luis Guillermo Solis each had about one third of the vote. The centrist Araya faces the prospect of a consolidated left-wing vote in the April 6 run-off against Solis. In El Salvador's preliminary count, Vice President...