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2020 San José Mayoral Election
Mayoral and municipal elections were held in San Jose, Costa Rica, on 2 February 2020 and were the method by which the citizens of the San José (canton), canton of San José elected the mayor, deputy mayors, syndics, aldermen and district councilors of the capital municipality. Incumbent Johnny Araya returns to his original party, National Liberation Party (Costa Rica), National Liberation Party, after a two-year suspension from the Ethics' Tribunal due to his resignation as presindential nominee in the 2014 Costa Rican general election, reason for which Araya was candidate from the local San José Alliance party winning previous 2016 San José mayoral election, but returning to PLN soon after. Other important candidates were PAC's nominee, economist and urban planner and founder of Rutas Naturbanas, Federico Cartín Arteaga and San José Alliance nominee Denise Echeverría Robert. Cartín was originally part of a coalition named Chepe which was integrated by PAC and the provincia ...
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Mayor Of San José, Costa Rica
The Mayor of San José is the general administrator and legal representative of the Municipality of San José, the capital of the Republic of Costa Rica and the largest and most populated municipality in the country. The position officially exists since the municipal reform of 1998 as part of the bipartisan agreements of the Figueres-Calderón Pact. Before this the municipalities were administered by a figure similar to a general manager appointed by the Municipal Council and called Municipal Executive, but after the reform this figure disappears replaced by the popularly elected mayor. The longest serving person in the office has been Johnny Araya Monge Johnny Francisco Araya Monge (born 29 April 1957) is a Costa Rican politician. He was the mayor of the country's capital San José from 1998 to 2001 and again since 2003. He was also the co-president of the United Cities and Local Government ... of the National Liberation Party, who was previously municipal executive for ...
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Broad Front (Costa Rica)
The Broad Front (''Frente Amplio'') is a left-wing political party in Costa Rica, the main component of the front is the Alternative of the Lefts Movement (''Movimiento Alternativa de Izquierdas''). They are defined by progressive, socialist and social justice ideas. The party is a member of the Foro de Sao Paulo, part of the international Latin American Left Movement (pink tide) of democratic socialism. History In the 2006 general elections, they won 1.1% of the legislative votes, and won one seat in the legislature, occupied by José Merino del Río. In the 2010 general elections they kept their seat, occupied by José María Villalta Florez-Estrada. Their presidential nominee was Eugenio Trejos Benavides, then the rector of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology. For the 2014 election the party’s nominee was then congressman Villalta, who was receiving a lot of support according to the polls, something unusual in Costa Rica for a left-wing candidate, and even appearing in ...
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San José, Costa Rica
San José (; meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley, within San José Canton. San José is Costa Rica's seat of national government, focal point of political and economic activity, and major transportation hub. San José Canton's population was 288,054 in 2011, and San José's municipal land area is 44.2 square kilometers (17.2 square miles), with an estimated 333,980 residents in 2015. Together with several other cantons of the central valley, including Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago, it forms the country's Greater Metropolitan Area, with an estimated population of over 2 million in 2017. The city is named in honor of Joseph of Nazareth. Founded in 1736 by order of Cabildo de León, the population of San José rose during the 18th century through the use of colonial planning. It has historically been a city of strat ...
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United We Can (Costa Rica)
United We Can ( es, Unidos Podemos) is a Costa Rican classical liberal political party founded by the former deputy and former Libertarian Movement member Natalia Díaz Quintana. The party culminated its process of cantonal and provincial assemblies in November 2018 allowing it to participate in the 2020 Costa Rican municipal elections. The party was founded by Díaz, who was deputy for the 2014-2018 period from Otto Guevara's Libertarian Movement. She would face Guevara in the party's first primary election, the National Libertarian Convention of 2017. Diaz lost with only a 10% gap. Díaz would not support Guevara as a candidate in the 2018 general election and would in fact give her adhesion to PNL nominee Antonio Álvarez Desanti. She started the creation of the party shortly after the presidential run ended, concluding it in November 2018. As of 2018, the party began talks with other political forces such as New Generation, the Christian Democratic Alliance, Costa Rica ...
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Christian Democratic Alliance (Costa Rica)
The Christian Democratic Alliance (, ADC) is a political party in the Cartago constituency of Costa Rica. It was founded in 2012, and is led by Mario Redondo Poveda, a former President of Congress and former member of the Social Christian Unity Party The Social Christian Unity Party ( es, Partido Unidad Social Cristiana) is a centre-right political party in Costa Rica. PUSC considers itself a Christian-democratic party and, as such, is a member of the Christian Democrat Organization of Ameri .... In the general election of 2014, Redondo was elected to the only seat in the Legislative Assembly won by the ADC. Another party of the same name was founded in San José but did not participate in the election. According to its statutes the ADC intends to enrol at national level in the future.Partido Al ...
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National Integration Party (Costa Rica)
The National Integration Party ( es, Partido Integración Nacional) is a political party in Costa Rica. The party mainly endorses perennial candidate Dr. Walter Muñoz Céspedes, a San Jose medical doctor and five-time presidential candidate, normally with about 1% or less of the vote. In the 2018 election, it endorsed the candidacy of former minister and defense lawyer Juan Diego Castro reaching 9% of the vote, although Castro and the party angrily split pathways soon after the election. The party first contested general elections in 1998, in which it won a single seat, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p175 taken by Walter Muñoz Céspedes, who was also their candidate in the presidential election, where he finished fourth with 1.4%. However, the party lost its seat in the 2002 elections in which it received 1.7% of the vote. In the presidential election that year Muñoz finished sixth with just 0.4%. In the 2010 elections the party ...
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National Restoration Party (Costa Rica)
The National Restoration Party ('' es, Partido Restauración Nacional'' – PRN or PREN) is a political party in Costa Rica. It was founded in 2005 by Carlos Avendaño Calvo mostly by dissidents of Costa Rica's historical Christian party, Costa Rican Renewal, after its then only deputy, Carlos Avendaño Calvo, left. Avendaño would successfully return to Congress because of the party from 2010 to 2014. Even though he had personal differences with Justo Orozco (then the PRC's only deputy), both were able to work together in defending the same agenda, mainly the conservative views of the evangelical community. The party's candidate in the presidential election of 2014 was Avendaño, who received 1.35 percent of the vote. In the same year's parliamentary election, Gerardo Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz, representing San José, was elected to the only seat in the Legislative Assembly that was won by the party. In the 2018 Costa Rican general elections the party when it won 14 of the ...
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Social Christian Republican Party
The Social Christian Republican Party is a Costa Rican political party founded in 2014 by former president Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier and his group of supporters as a splinter from the historical Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC). The party also uses the colors and a similar name of Calderón's father's party, the National Republican Party. The Party was created soon after the Calderonistas left PUSC due to unusually harsh clashes among the Calderonista and Liberal factions inside the party during the general election of 2014. Both factions have been historically rivals but generally work together after the primaries, but after the 2013 presidential primary in which the Calderonista candidate Dr. Rodolfo Hernández won, internal fighting between Hernández and the Liberal-led National Committee caused Hernández's resignation. Hernández and Calderón founded the PRSC a few months after the election, and its first election was in the 2016 municipal elections, with the ...
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New Republic Party (Costa Rica)
The New Republic Party ( es, Partido Nueva República) is a Costa Rican Christian-conservative political party founded on 20 October 2018. The party was founded after the resignation of the evangelical singer and journalist Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz from the Christian party National Restoration for disagreements with the Executive Committee chaired by Congressman Carlos Avendaño. Alvarado was the latter's presidential candidate in the 2018 elections of major significance, since he was the most voted in the first round with 25% of the votes, qualifying for the run-off, but was defeated by the Citizen's Action Party nominee Carlos Alvarado Quesada Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada (; born 14 January 1980) is a Costa Rican politician, writer, journalist and political scientist who served as the 48th president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. A member of the Citizens' Action P .... After a series of disputes arising from irregular contracts made by the campaign te ...
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Social Christian Unity Party
The Social Christian Unity Party ( es, Partido Unidad Social Cristiana) is a centre-right political party in Costa Rica. PUSC considers itself a Christian-democratic party and, as such, is a member of the Christian Democrat Organization of America (ODCA). It was founded in 1983 by merger of the parties that were part of the Unity Coalition: the Christian Democratic, the Republican Calderonista, People's Union and the Democratic Renovation Party. Its historical roots are in '' Calderonism'', i.e. the movement of supporters of Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, who was the country's president in the 1940s. From its foundation until 2006, the PUSC was one of Costa Rica's two dominant parties, alongside the National Liberation Party. It provided three presidents: Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (1990–94), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1998–2002) and Abel Pacheco (2002–06). History Negotiations among the main right-wing opposition parties to create a political force capable of co ...
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Boda Johnny Araya & Sandra León (9226446584) (cropped)
Boda may refer to: Geography * Boda River, a river on Fiji * Mount Boda, a mountain in Antarctica * Boda, Hungary, a village in Baranya county, Hungary * An area in Panchagarh District, Northern Bangladesh, India * Boda Upazila, an area in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh * Boda, Lobaye, a town in the prefecture of Lobaye, Central African Republic * Boda, Rajgarh, a town in Madhya Pradesh, India Sweden * Böda, a village in Borgholm Municipality, Kalmar province * Boda, Sweden, a village in Rättvik municipality, Dalarna province * Böda Church, a church in Öland, Sweden * Boda glasbruk, a village in Emmaboda Municipality, Kronoberg province * Böda kronopark, a crown park (kronopark) on Öland * Böda socken, a former county district on Öland People * Imre Boda (born 1961), Hungarian soccer player * Katsushi Boda (Japanese: 保田 克史), Japanese stop-motion animator * Victor Biaka Boda (1913-1950), Ivorian politician Other * Bridge of Don Academy (BODA), a Scottish school ...
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