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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Avendaño Calvo
Carlos Avendaño Calvo (born 23 November 1955) is a Costa Rican politician as well as an Evangelical pastor and theologian. He is the founder of the National Restoration Party. Born San José, Avendaño holds a theological degree form IBAD. Since 1993 Avendaño has been a pastor with the Assemblies of God denomination. On 5 February 2005 Avendaño founded the National Restoration PartyPartido Político Restauración Nacional Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. Retrieved: 2014-03-05. after he resigned as the deputy of because of differences with the parties chairman |
Fabricio Alvarado
Fabricio () is a Spanish male given name. Fabrício () is the Portuguese equivalent. Among those with the first name are: *Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer *Fabrício Guerreiro (born 1990), Brazilian mixed martial artist *Fabricio Oberto, Argentine basketball player *Fabrício Ramos da Silva (born 1995), Brazilian footballer *Fabricio Ramos Melo (born 1986), Brazilian footballer *Fabrício (footballer, born February 1990), Fabrício Silva Dornellas, Brazilian football centre-back *Fabrício de Souza *Fabrício dos Santos Silva * Fabrício Werdum (born 1977), Brazilian mixed martial artist *Fabricio Agosto Ramírez, Spanish goalkeeper playing for Fulham F.C. *Fabrício (footballer, born 1995), born Fabrício Ramos da Silva, Brazilian football midfielder *Fabrício (footballer, born 1982), born Fabrício André Pires, Brazilian football midfielder See also *Fabrizio (other) Fabrizio is an Italian first name, from the Latin word "Faber" meaning "smith" and may refer to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Parties In Costa Rica
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in which it appears. In Western culture, conservatives seek to preserve a range of institutions such as organized religion, parliamentary government, and property rights. Conservatives tend to favor institutions and practices that guarantee stability and evolved gradually. Adherents of conservatism often oppose modernism and seek a return to traditional values, though different groups of conservatives may choose different traditional values to preserve. The first established use of the term in a political context originated in 1818 with François-René de Chateaubriand during the period of Bourbon Restoration that sought to roll back the policies of the French Revolution. Historically associated with right-wing politics, the term has sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangelical Political Parties In Latin America
The political influence of Evangelicalism in Latin America is a phenomenon that has resulted in increased political influence and activism by the Evangelical Christian community in the region. Marginal at first, different news reports and political analysts have pointed the important weight that such community has and its impact in electoral politics, even helping in the electoral victories of conservative candidates. Evangelical political parties are a particular type of political parties in Latin America generally linked or known to advocate for the interests of the Evangelical Christian community. They are normally associated with certain stances like cultural conservatism, strong opposition to same-sex marriage and LGBT rights, legalization of abortion, drug liberalization and marijuana legalization, what they refer as "gender ideology" or identity politics, gun control and globalism. Although exceptions exist, they tend to be located on the right of the spectrum due to the Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Costa Rican General Election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 7 February 2010. The ruling party before the election, the center-left National Liberation Party, put forward former Vice-President Laura Chinchilla as its presidential candidate, while the libertarian, Movimiento Libertario nominated former legislator Otto Guevara. Opinion polls before voting started consistently put Chinchilla as the front-runner, a trend confirmed in the election-night count, which showed her garnering 46.76% of the vote. The election was supervised by observers from several countries, as well as from the Organization of American States. The incumbent president, Óscar Arias, was ineligible to run for a second consecutive term. This was the last time as of 2019, that the National Liberation Party has gotten more than 30% of the vote, the last time to this date that they have won the Presidency, and the last time it has won any province in what is known as the Central Valley (the four provinces in the interior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not Applicable
N/A or sometimes n/a is a common abbreviation in tables and lists for the phrase not applicable,Barbara H. Foley, ''English In Action'' (2003), p. 192.Alan C. Kay, J., ''Metzler Contracting Co. Llc v. Stephens'', 774 F.Supp.2d 1073, n. 12 (D. Haw., 2011): "If the contract was a cost-plus-fee contract with no guaranteed maximum, then the arbitrator could plausibly determine that the preliminary budget did not constrain the contract sum. On the other hand, if the contract sum could not exceed the preliminary budget, as amended, then the arbitrator could plausibly determine that the contract did have a guaranteed maximum, despite its express provision that the guaranteed maximum was “N/A.” The former interpretation is consistent with Metzler's contention that “N/A” means “not applicable,” whereas the latter is consistent with the Stephenses' contention that it means “not available,” in that the contract required Metzler to prepare the preliminary budget after the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Costa Rican General Election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 5 February 2006. In the presidential election, Óscar Arias of the National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación Nacional), a former president and Nobel Peace Laureate, was victorious over Ottón Solís of the Citizens' Action Party (Partido Acción Ciudadana) and twelve other minor-party candidates. Although Arias was expected to win by a wide margin, the actual polling reports were unexpectedly close. However, early results showed the contest to be closer than it actually was. The preliminary official report, after 88.45% of the vote counted, showed the result for President of the Republic almost tied between Arias with 40.51% of the vote and Ottón Solís with 40.29%. Given the small difference of only 3250 votes, the Superior Electoral Tribunal announced that a manual count of all the votes would start immediately and no official winner would be announced until that process was completed, approximately two weeks after the elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Cruickshank Smith
Eduardo Cruickshank Smith (born 29 January 1958) is a Costa Rican politician as well as an Evangelical pastor, lawyer, and notary. He is the former President of the Costa Rican parliament, a position he held from 2020 to 2021. He is the first Afro-Costa Rican to ever hold that position. Personal life Cruickshank was born in a Jamaican-Costa Rican family of 8 children. His brother Clinton Cruickshank Smith is also a politician, being a former legislator and former presidential candidate of the National Liberation Party. His father as a carpenter and his mother was a housewife. Before entering politics he was pastor at the Colina de su Gloria church in his hometown of Limón, and has a degree in law from the University of Costa Rica. He is married to Jeannette Edwards and has two children: Jermaine Eduardo Cruickshank Edwards and Yocelyn Shavony Cruickshank Edwards. He is also a grandfather. Political career Having been first elected to the Legislative assembly of Costa Rica in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Costa Rican General Election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 2022, to elect the president, two vice-presidents, and all 57 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. As none of the presidential nominees obtained at least 40% of the votes, a runoff was held on 3 April 2022, between the top two candidates, José María Figueres and Rodrigo Chaves Robles. Rodrigo Chaves Robles of the Social Democratic Progress Party, a former official of the World Bank and former Minister of Finance with an anti-establishment reputation, won 52.9% of the votes in the run-off ballot and was declared president-elect by the Electoral Tribunal. Rival candidate and former president José Maria Figueres of the National Liberation Party received 47.1% of the votes and conceded defeat. Electoral system The President of Costa Rica is elected using a modified two-round system in which a candidate must receive at least 40% of the vote to win in the first round; if no candidate wins in the first round, a runoff is h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Avendaño
Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhere * Carlos (crater), Montes Apenninus, LQ12, Moon; a lunar crater near Mons Hadley People * Carlos (given name), including a list of name holders * Carlos (surname), including a list of name holders Sportspeople * Carlos (Timorese footballer) (born 1986) * Carlos (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian footballer * Carlos (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian footballer Others * Carlos (Calusa) (died 1567), king or paramount chief of the Calusa people of Southwest Florida * Carlos (DJ) (born 1966), British DJ * Carlos (singer) (1943—2008), French entertainer * Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan terrorist *Carlos (DJ) (born 2010) Guyanese DJ Arts and entertainment * ''Carlos'' (miniseries), 2010 biopic about the terrorist Carlos the Jackal * ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Nación (Costa Rica)
''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal '' Clarín''. It is regarded as a newspaper of record for Argentina. Its motto is: "''La Nación'' will be a tribune of doctrine." It is the second most read newspaper in print, behind ''Clarín'', and the third in digital format, behind '' Infobae'' and ''Clarín''. In addition, it has an application for Android and iOS phones. The newspaper's printing plant is in the City of Buenos Aires and its newsroom is in Vicente López, Province of Buenos Aires. The newsroom also acts as a studio for the newspaper's TV channel, LN+. Overview The paper was founded on 4 January 1870 (replacing the former publication ''Nación Argentina''), by former Argentine President Bartolomé Mitre and associates. Until 1914, the managing editor was José Luis Murature, Foreign Minister of Argentina from 1914-1916. Enjoying Latin America's larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribunal Supremo De Elecciones De Costa Rica
The Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica (TSE) ( es, Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica), is the supreme election commission of the Republic of Costa Rica. The Electoral Court was established in 1949 by the present Constitution of Costa Rica. Role The Electoral Court is independent of any other body and consists of three judges appointed by the Supreme Court of Justice to serve six-year terms. During the election period, the size of Electoral Court is expanded to five judges. Since its establishment, the Electoral Court has provided for transparent elections and is constitutionally responsible for organizing elections and assuring the integrity of their results. History The Cádiz Constitution of 1812 established Costa Rica's first elections. Politics of Costa Rica Political organizations based in Costa Rica Elections in Costa Rica Institutions of Costa Rica Electoral courts Tribunals {{CostaRica-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
