The Civil Party of
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 no ...
( es, Partido Civil) was a political grouping that arose in 1893 in sight of the
1894 Costa Rican general election. Initially it acted without a candidate, but later it postulated Navy Secretary of War
Rafael Yglesias Castro
Rafael Anselmo José Yglesias Castro (18 April 1861 – 10 April 1924) was a Costa Rican politician who served as President of Costa Rica for two consecutive periods from 1894 to 1902.
Biography
He was born to Demetrio Yglesias Llorente a ...
, who won the electoral vote in the second level election.
Subsequently, the party participated in the mid-term election of 1896 for the renewal of half of the Congress, and postulated the re-election of Rafael Yglesias Castro for the
1898 election, in which the opposition refrained from participating. In the
1902 presidential elections it did not nominates any candidate and endorses
Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra.
The Civil Party had an eminently personal character, around the figure of Rafael Yglesias Castro, with some
liberal
Liberal or liberalism may refer to:
Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
and
populist ideas, but without actually having a clearly defined ideological line.
It returned to the political scene in the
presidential elections of 1910 and
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
, to nominate Yglesias Castro, but the results of the elections were adverse. Neither managed to elect him as a deputy in the
legislative elections of 1915, with which the party virtually disappeared from the Costa Rican political scene.
References
Defunct political parties in Costa Rica
Defunct liberal political parties
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