Vila emphasizes that he does not believe it was church policy to facilitate these thefts , but rather , a high number of nuns and priests are implicated because they formed an important part of hospital staff at the time .
A majority of exit polls handed mr funes , a former television journalist , victory over his only opponent , rodrigo & aacute ; vila , of the incumbent right-wing alianza republicana nacionalista ( arena ) who conceded defeat the same day .
Mr vila hopes that more effective , and swifter , patent protection and a 2004 law granting universities greater rights to exploit spin-offs from publicly funded research will mean that innovation will now bear more fruit .
