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Republican Party (Costa Rica)
The Republican Party ( es, Partido Republicano, PR) was a political party in Costa Rica. History The party first contested national elections in 1902, when Máximo Fernández Alvarado was its presidential candidate. Fernández finished second to the National Union Party candidate Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra. Fernández finished second again in the 1906 elections. Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno was the party's presidential candidate in 1910. Although Fernández received the most votes in the 1913 presidential elections, he failed to secure a majority and declined to take up the post; Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p186 Congress subsequently elected Alfredo González Flores as president. In the 1915 parliamentary elections the party received 67% of the vote. Costa Rica was briefly a one-party state under president Federico Tinoco Granados for the 1917 and January 1919 elections. Although the Republican Party received only 4% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and Maritime boundary, maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of . An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, Costa Rica, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. The sovereign state is a Unitary state, unitary Presidential system, presidential Constitution of Costa Rica, constitutional republic. It has a long-standing and stable democracy and a highly educated workforce. The country spends roughly 6.9% of its budget (2016) on education, compared to a global average of 4.4%. Its economy, once heavily dependent on agricultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Tinoco Granados
General José Federico Alberto de Jesús Tinoco Granados (21 November 1868 – 7 September 1931) was a politician, soldier, and the Dictator of Costa Rica from 1917 to 1919. Biography Tinoco was born in 1868. On 5 June 1898 in San José, he married María de las Mercedes Elodia Fernández Le Cappellain. The couple had no children. After a career in the army, he was appointed Minister of War in the cabinet of President Alfredo González. On 27 January 1917 he and his brother José Joaquín seized power in a coup d'état and established a repressive military dictatorship that attempted to crush all opposition. Though his government won support from the upper classes because it turned back the austerity measures adopted by President González, and declared war on the German Empire in May 1918, it failed to win the recognition of the United States, where President Woodrow Wilson supported the deposed government. Popular sentiment against Tinoco, which began on 13 June 1919, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Republican Party (Costa Rica)
The National Republican Party ( es, Partido Republicano Nacional; PRN) was a political party in Costa Rica. History A loosely liberal party was founded under the leadership of Máximo Fernández Alvarado known simply as Republican Party in 1901, its candidate was Fernández himself three times. The party's candidate Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno was elected president in 1910. A non-elected president member of the party was Alfredo González Flores who became the only president of Costa Rica appointed by the Congress. After electing Jiménez on three occasions, the party also secured the election of León Cortés Castro in 1936, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia in 1940 and Teodoro Picado Michalski in 1944 becoming a dominant party. During Calderón's leadership the party moved toward Christian democracy and Christian socialism making some of the country's first social reforms in alliance with the Communist Party. Criticism over corruption, authoritarianism and voting fraud against t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Costa Rican General Election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 14 February 1932. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p155 Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno of the National Republican Party won the presidential election, whilst the party also won the parliamentary election, in which they received 47% of the vote. Voter turnout was 64%.Nohlen, p156 Campaign In 1931 Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno was proclaimed in absentia presidential nominee in the National Republican Party’s convention, where an incident happens; four people shout "Long live the Communist Party!" When informed he has been elected candidate Jiménez said he would consider it. He was reluctant, he had withdrawn from politics to his farm, saying he would accept only if he had enough citizen support and economic support from others. The diverse republican factions (all claiming to be heirs of the historic Republican Party of Máximo Fernández) were divided looking for candidates. Alberto Echandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleto González Víquez
Cleto de Jesús González Víquez (13 October 1858 – 23 September 1937) was, on two occasions, the President of Costa Rica, firstly as the 18th president in 1906 and lastly as the 26th president in 1928. ''Don Cleto'' was born in Barva, Heredia on October 13, 1858, as the son of Cleto González Pérez and Aurora Víquez Murillo. He was a renowned Costa Rican politician, lawyer, and historian. He married in 1889 to Adela Herrán Bonilla and died in San José, Costa Rica on September 23, 1937. Cleto González Víquez was given the title of ''Benemérito de la Patria'' on October 5, 1944. President of Costa Rica ''Don Cleto'' began his political career at a young age. He was a mayor of San José, Secretary of the State of President Bernardo Soto Alfaro, Undersecretary of the Government and Police, among other offices. He also became president of the College of Lawyers and of the ''Junta de Caridad de San José'' (today the ''Junta de Protección Social''). :es:San José ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Costa Rican General Election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 12 February 1928. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p155 Cleto González Víquez of the National Union won the presidential election, whilst the party also won the parliamentary election, in which they received 53% of the vote. Voter turnout was 62% in the presidential election and 73% in the parliamentary election.Nohlen, p156 Background On 6 January 1926 the delegates of the Agricultural Party, which was the second most voted party in the previous elections, met at the Moderno Theater of San Jose where they met the resignation of their leader and presidential candidate Alberto Echandi Montero, deciding to constitute a new political organization called the National Union Party, a name that had previously been used to bring Ascension Esquivel Ibarra to power, but which preserves the agricultural green flag (since Esquivel had used a white flag). The party nominated former President Cleto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Costa Rican General Election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 2 December 1923. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p155 Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno of the Republican Party won the presidential election, whilst the party also won the parliamentary election, in which they received 51% of the vote. Voter turnout was 70% in the presidential election and 84% in the parliamentary election.Nohlen, p156 Background The newly founded Agricultural Party chooses its presidential nominee at a convention held at the Teatro ''El Trébol'' between the aristocrat Alberto Echandi Montero and the ex-president Rafael Yglesias Castro, receiving 231 and 123 votes respectively, although Yglesias requested the attendees to support Echandi then thought about retiring from politics (he died a year later). In the Republican Party the grassroots base is determined to convince former President Ricardo Jimenez Oreamuno to accept the candidacy, but he was reluctant. Once convinced, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Costa Rican Parliamentary Election
Mid-term parliamentary elections were held in Costa Rica on 2 December 1921. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p155 The Agricultural Party received the most votes, but only 26% of the total. Voter turnout was 30%.Nohlen, p164 Results References {{Costa Rican elections Costa Parliamentary A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ... Elections in Costa Rica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Costa Rican Parliamentary Election
Mid-term parliamentary elections were held in Costa Rica on 2 March 1919. They were held under the 1917 constitution drawn up during the authoritarian regime of Federico Tinoco Granados, who had come to power in a coup that year. The constitution provided for a bicameral parliament with a 29-seat Chamber of Deputies and 14-seat Senate. At the time, the Peliquista Party was the only legal party. It won all seats in both chambers. Voter turnout was 54%. Tinoco resigned in August 1919 and parliament was dissolved shortly afterwards. Elections for a new president and parliament were held in December. References {{Costa Rican elections Costa Parliamentary A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ... Elections in Costa Rica One-party elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Costa Rican General Election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 1 April 1917.Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p155 Federico Tinoco Granados had seized power in a military coup in January and was the only candidate in the presidential election. The elections were considered to be fraudulent and although former president Rafael Yglesias Castro received 249 votes in Alajuela, they were recorded as invalid ballots.Nohlen, p176 Voter turnout was reported to be 69.2% in the presidential election and 67.6% in the parliamentary election.Nohlen, p156 Tinoco enjoyed the support of the coffee and banking oligarchy that had been affected by the reforms of Alfredo González Flores, of important political figures including (at least initially) Máximo Fernández Alvarado and Otilio Ulate Blanco, and of the Army (commanded by his brother). But it also enjoyed, at first, a very important popular support and the Tinoquista regime convened a demonstration of strength tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Costa Rican Parliamentary Election
Mid-term parliamentary elections were held in Costa Rica on 5 December 1915. Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p155 The result was a victory for the Republican Party, which received almost two-thirds of the vote. Voter turnout was 50%.Nohlen, p163 Results References {{Costa Rican elections Costa Parliamentary A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ... Elections in Costa Rica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 Costa Rican General Election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 16 February 1902. They occurred under growing political tensions. The authoritarian government of Rafael Yglesias was in direct confrontation with the opposition and had re-elected himself as single-candidate in the previous election by a questionable constitutional reform. The liberal Republican Party represented the most staunch opposition and the country was on the edge of civil war. However, Yglesias managed to negotiate with the moderate branch of the Republicans for a peaceful power exchange. This new election was called with two candidates: Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra from the newly formed National Union Party and Máximo Fernández Alvarado under the banner of the "Republican Club". Both liberals. Esquivel won by a large margin. Results In the first round, Yglesias did not run, but some electors voted for him rather than for Esquivel. First round by province Second round by province References {{Costa Rican elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
