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The following article lists the presidents and heads of state of Costa Rica since Central American independence from Spain. From 1824 to 1838 Costa Rica was a state within the Federal Republic of Central America; since then it has been an independent nation.
In addition, Costa Rican politics was then (and continues to be to some extent) eminently personalist, so political parties such as Civil, National, Peliquista and Republican revolved mostly around leaders and political figures and not ideologies although, in general terms, they usually be diffusely associated with liberalism.
This is a list of notable Costa Rican politicians A. Vicente Aguilar Cubero; Florentino Alfaro Zamora ...
Rodrigo Chaves began a four-year term as Costa Rica's president on Sunday, taking office with a lengthy list of reproaches for his predecessor and the country's political class while promising ...
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 held between the two candidates with the largest number of votes.
Rodrigo Alberto de Jesús Chaves Robles (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈðɾiɣo ˈtʃaβes ˈroβles]; born 10 June 1961) is a Costa Rican politician and economist who is the 49th and current President of Costa Rica since 2022. He was previously Minister of Finance from 2019 to 2020 during the presidency of Carlos Alvarado Quesada. [2]
List of Costa Rican politicians This page was last edited on 5 February 2018, at 19:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
This article lists political parties in Costa Rica. Costa Rica used to have a two-party system , which meant that there were two dominant political parties, the Social Christian Unity Party and the National Liberation Party , with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.