The Partido Agrícola was a

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. It was founded for the 1923 general election and ran as candidate the wealthy aristocrat and lawyer Alberto Echandi Montero, father of the future

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. The party held a convention at the ''El Trébol'' Theater to select its presidential candidate, choosing Echandi over former president

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. Although Yglesias had asked to vote for Echandi because he claimed to be tired of politics. During the campaign, the party faced ex-president

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of the

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and ex-priest and ex-military

Jorge Volio Jiménez Jorge Volio Jiménez (August 26, 1882 – October 20, 1955) was a Costa Rican priest, soldier and politician. Biography Jorge Volio was born August 26, 1882, in Cartago, Costa Rica to Carlos Volio Llorente and Matilde Jiménez Oreamuno. In 1901, ...

of the leftist Reformist Party. Both parties had more ideological closeness to each other because they had socially more progressive positions, while Echandi was seen as the candidate of the oligarchy, so they both focused on fighting Echandi. None of the candidates got enough votes to win in the first round, thus the Constitution prescribed that it corresponded to the Constitutional Congress (parliament) to elect the president from among the candidates. The Agricultural Party obtained the majority in the Parliament, but the combined votes of Republicans and Reformists surpassed it, so the Congress finally elected Jiménez as president and Volio as

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, relegating the echandismo that tried unsuccessfully to break the quorum. Echandi would continue his political career later getting to obtain important diplomatic and ministerial positions, but the Agricultural Party would disappear, dissolving on January 6, 1926.

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{{reflist Defunct political parties in Costa Rica Defunct liberal political parties Political parties disestablished in 1926