Costa Rican Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) President Eugenia Zamora called on voters to exercise their right to vote today in the second round of general elections in this Central American country.
At the TSE’s first press conference on the course of the presidential elections, Zamora indicated that “I take advantage of the opportunity and the space that they offer us to call on the Costa Rican voters” to participate in the elections.
He reminded people who lost their ID cards that the doors are open for them to take out during the day so no one is left without a choice.
Low turnout in the election for the new president of Costa Rica
For his part, the director of the electoral register, Héctor Fernández, reported that all the polling stations opened smoothly to receive the votes of just over 3.5 million voters who were called among the candidates to elect the new president of Costa Rica Jose Maria Figueres and Rodrigo Chavez.
The first judiciary will be contested in this second round by former President Figueres (1994-1998) from the National Liberation Party and Chaves from the Social Democratic Progressive Party, who finished first and second in that order in the first round on February 6 last year .
Highlighting the smooth running of the logistics planned by the TSE, Zamora reiterated that at 8:00 p.m. local time in the solemn session, they will announce the first preliminary cut of the results of this presidential election.
examine message
During the press conference, Fernández announced that the TSE had launched an investigation into a massive text message to intimidate those currently serving as election observers and announced that they had already identified the company that distributed them this Saturday, but didn’t mention her name. Surname. He assured that later in the day it would be announced who hired the company to distribute bulk SMS.
The 7,767 polling stations (schools) across the country opened at 06:00 local time and close at 18:00 local time. (Latin press)