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P 3661 Laura Chinchilla becomes nation's first female president

France24 2010.02.08

Laura Chinchilla’s opponents have accepted defeat in Costa Rica's presidential election, making the ruling party’s centrist candidate the first woman to hold the nation's top office.

The slight, long-haired graduate of Georgetown University in Washington served as vice president to Arias and is socially conservative on issues such as abortion.

Her National Liberation Party (PLN) bet on her past experience as public security minister and justice minister to win voters over on growing concerns over crime.

The mother of one teenage son has promised to increase grants for poor students, expand the pensions for the poor and open daycare centers to support working mothers.
by jpflege | 2010-02-09 04:27 | 507 gender
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