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The Legislative Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Legislativa) forms the unicameral legislative branch of the Costa Rican government.The national congress building is located in the capital city, San José, specifically in Carmen district of the San José canton.
Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica 2022-2026 Province Deputy Parliamentary Fraction San José Province Rodrigo Arias Sánchez: PLN Andrea Álvarez Marín: PLN Danny Vargas Serrano: PLN Carolina Delgado Ramírez: PLN Gilberth Jimenez Siles [Wikidata] PLN Pilar Cisneros Gallo PPSD Waldo Agüero Sanabria: PPSD Luz Mary Alpízar Loaiza: PPSD
Costa Rica elects a president (who is the head of state), two vice-presidents and a legislature. The President of Costa Rica and the vice-presidents are elected for a four-year term by the people. The Legislative Assembly (Asamblea Legislativa) has 57 members, elected for four-year terms by closed list proportional representation in each of the ...
Costa Rica had as its representative before the Cortes the presbyter Florencio del Castillo. [ 1 ] At the time of the independence from Spain in 1821, the Interim Fundamental Social Pact of the Province of Costa Rica was enacted, also known as the Pact of Concord , which governed from December 1, 1821, to March 19, 1823.
General elections were held in Costa Rica on Sunday, 2 February 2014 to elect a new president, two vice presidents, and 57 Legislative Assembly lawmakers. [1] In accordance with Article 132 of the constitution, incumbent President Laura Chinchilla Miranda was ineligible to run for a second consecutive term.
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.
The politics of Costa Rica take place in a framework of a presidential, representative democratic republic, with a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and their cabinet, and the President of Costa Rica is both the head of state and head of government. Legislative power is vested in the Legislative Assembly. The ...
General elections were held in Costa Rica in 2018 to elect both the President and Legislative Assembly.The first round of the presidential election was held on 4 February 2018, with the two highest-ranked candidates being Christian singer and Congressman Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz from the conservative National Restoration Party and writer and former Minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada from the ...