Overview
- With 88.4% of polling stations counted, Laura Fernández stood near 48.5% of the vote to Álvaro Ramos’s roughly 33.3%, securing a first-round victory.
- Argentina’s Foreign Ministry issued an official communiqué congratulating Fernández and praising shared democratic values under the leaderships of Javier Milei and the president-elect.
- The Argentine note characterized Partido Pueblo Soberano as part of Costa Rica’s right‑liberal current and framed Costa Rica as an ideological ally of Milei’s government.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly congratulated Fernández and reaffirmed Mexico’s intent to strengthen friendship, cooperation and respect between the countries.
- Fernández, a 39-year-old political scientist, campaigned as Rodrigo Chaves’s heir and promised a tough-on-crime approach to address public concerns about insecurity.