Costa Rica’s Ruling Party Picks Nominee
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The governing National Liberation Party of Costa Rica has chosen Oscar Arias Sanchez as its nominee for next year’s presidential election.
With more than two-thirds of the ballots counted from a nationwide primary Sunday, Arias Sanchez, a former general secretary of the center-left party, had 59.9% of the votes in the two-man race, a party tribunal announced.
Arais Sanchez, 44, a political scientist and lawyer, defeated Carlos Manuel Castillo Morales, 56, an economist.
Arias Sanchez will run against a former foreign minister, Rafael Angel Calderon of the Unity Social Christian Party, in the Feb. 2, 1986, election. Calderon lost in 1982 to President Luis Alberto Monge, who by law cannot serve a second term.
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