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San Jose, Costa Rica – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias won Costa Rica’s Feb. 5 presidential election by 18,167 votes, one of the country’s closest races ever, according to official results released Wednesday.
An Associated Press tabulation of the complete official vote count showed Arias received 664,545 votes compared to 646,378 votes for Otton Solis.
Costa Rican elections officials weren’t expected to formally declare a winner following the count of more than two weeks, until any major election challenges are resolved.
