Ottón Solís Fallas

…points ahead of the runner-up, Ottón Solís Fallas of the centre-left Citizen Action Party (Partido Acción Ciudadana; PAC), who had been Arias’s main challenger in 2006.

…in the 2006 elections, beating Ottón Solís Fallas of PAC by a slim margin. He proposed ending state-run monopolies in electric power, social security, and telecommunications and favoured ratifying the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA–DR) with the United States, despite protests from trade unions and other organizations. Costa…