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With the election this Sunday of the official Laura Fernandez as the next president for the period 2026-2030, Costa Rica ratified the turn to the right and is heading towards “profound and irreversible” changes. The opposition, for its part, has warned that it will not allow “improper things.”
The president-elect, who will begin her term on May 8, announced this Sunday in her victory speech a “profound and irreversible change” for found “the third republic”and promised the opposition that his Government will be one of “dialogue and conciliation.”
“We have to build the third republic. The mandate given to me by the sovereign people is clear, the change will be profound and irreversible,” said Fernández from a platform located outside a hotel in San José, where hundreds of his followers gathered.
In Costa Rica, the political changes that arose after the civil war of 1948 are known as the second republic, such as the abolition of the Army and the drafting of a new Political Constitution.
Fernández, a 39-year-old political scientist, did not detail the changes she wants to promote in the “third republic,” but during her campaign she promised to reform the Judiciary and other State institutions, while leaders of her party recognized that one of the objectives is reform the Political Constitution to allow consecutive re-election.
The elected president, who obtained 48.5% of the votes With 88.4% of the tables counted, well above the 40% necessary to win in the first round, she said that she is “a convinced democrat” and a “defender of freedom, life and the family.”
Fernández also had a call with the president Rodrigo Chavesa right-wing economist with high levels of popularity and who was Minister of the Presidency and Planning, whom he thanked for the “example” given throughout his Government.
Fernández’s Sovereign People’s Party obtained 30 of the 57 deputies of Congressaccording to preliminary data, but must seek agreements for profound reforms that require the vote of two-thirds of the Legislature.
Outstretched hand of the opposition
The opposition will be led by the social democratic National Liberation Party, whose candidate Alvaro Ramos He obtained 33.3% of the votes and warned that he will not allow improper acts.
“I wish Mrs. Laura Fernández that God gives her much wisdom to govern and we will support it when their decisions are for the good of the country and we will not do it when we do not agree.
Ramos assured that his party will be “a constructive opposition,” but that “that does not mean that they will do inappropriate things.”
“In democracy it is worth discerning and it is worth criticizing; and we will also demonstrate that we can fulfill the agreements. (…) Civil society has to remain strong and participatory, do not fall into its fighting spirit, let us continue working to solve the problems all together,” he expressed.
In a solemn session, the president of the TSE, Eugenia Zamora, requested “respect the verdict of the polls without renouncing critical democracy and surveillance of the rulers“, and called for “responsibility to stop the escalation of insults”, which does not bring the country closer in the search for solutions to fight against “poverty, ignorance and crime.”
“We have been attentive to every detail to guarantee once again the purity of suffrage (…) We are grateful for exemplary, free and authentic elections, which once again honor the most noble Costa Rican tradition,” said Zamora.
Abstentionism stood at 30.3%, according to TSE data.