Laura Fern\u00e1ndez Delgado declared victory in the Costa Rican presidential election on Sunday after preliminary results showed her Sovereign People\u2019s Party leading the national vote with just over 48% support.<\/p>\n
The National Liberation Party followed in second place with approximately 33% of the vote, according to the latest official tally from Costa Rica\u2019s Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which oversees and certifies national elections.<\/p>\n
‘Change will be deep and irreversible,’ Fern\u00e1ndez said at her victory party in San Jose, according to a translation of her remarks from Reuters.<\/p>\n
A former government minister, she is the handpicked successor of outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves, who is constitutionally prohibited from seeking re-election.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Fern\u00e1ndez, 39, is set to become Costa Rica\u2019s second female president, after Laura Chinchilla, who served from 2010 to 2014.<\/p>\n
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday congratulated Fern\u00e1ndez on her victory in Costa Rica\u2019s presidential election, emphasizing the United States\u2019 commitment to working closely with her incoming administration.<\/p>\n
‘Under her leadership, we are confident Costa Rica will continue to advance shared priorities to include combatting narco-trafficking, ending illegal immigration to the United States, promoting cybersecurity and secure telecommunications, and strengthening economic ties,’ Rubio said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Reuters reported<\/u> that Fern\u00e1ndez, who is married and has a young daughter, has built her political profile around conservative Catholic values and a strong emphasis on family, helping her gain traction among Costa Rica\u2019s expanding evangelical electorate.<\/p>\n
She has publicly expressed admiration for Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, and his tough stance on crime, signaling openness to enhanced security measures in violence-prone areas.<\/p>\n
Fern\u00e1ndez has also said she would complete construction of a maximum-security prison modeled on El Salvador\u2019s CECOT facility as part of a broader strategy to address serious crime.<\/p>\n
The president-elect is scheduled to be sworn in on May 8.<\/p>\n
Fox News’ Emma Bussey contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Laura Fern\u00e1ndez Delgado declared victory in the Costa Rican presidential election on Sunday after preliminary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketspaceinsights.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}