Patriotic Alliance ( es, Alianza Patriótica) is a
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
in
Costa Rica.
Originally named Alajuelense Democratic Action was a provincial party for the
Alajuela Province
Alajuela () is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country, bordering Nicaragua to the north. It also borders the provinces of Heredia to the east, San José to the south, Puntarenas to the southwest and ...
. The first general elections contested by the party were in
1982, when it won a single seat.
[ Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p174 ] However, it won only 0.3% of the vote at the
1986 elections
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and lost its seat. It did not contest the
1990 elections, but returned in
1994
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, winning 0.8% of the vote, but no seats. In
1998
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it received only 0.5% of the vote and remained without parliamentary representation.
In the
2002 elections the party was part of the
Coalition Change 2000 that won only 0.8% of the vote and no seats. In 2009 the party was renamed as Patriotic Alliance and became of national-level nominating
Rolando Araya
Rolando Araya Monge (born 20 August 1947) is a Costa Rican politician. He is a nephew of former president Luis Alberto Monge.
Biography
Rolando Araya went to school in Palmares, the place he was born, and at the Lincoln Park High School, M ...
(former
PLN member) as presidential candidate, but Araya dropped from the race and he and his party endorsed
PAC's candidate
Ottón Solís
Ottón Solís Fallas (born 31 May 1954 near Pérez Zeledón) is a Costa Rican politician. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Costa Rica in 1976 and gained a master's degree in economics from the University of Manc ...
in the
2010 ballot. On the
2014 election the party also endorsed PAC's candidate, this time
Luis Guillermo Solís
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera (; born 25 April 1958) is a Costa Rican politician and educator who was the 47th President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018. He is a member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC).
Solís led the field in the 2014 pr ...
.
References
Political parties in Costa Rica
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