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2010 Costa Rican Municipal Elections
Municipal elections were held in Costa Rica on 5 December 2010. These were the third municipal elections in the history of the country and the last on be held in December of the same electoral year due to an electoral reform that turned municipal election to be held mid-term. Because of this the Electoral Supreme Court mandate the constitutional period of the newly elected authorities to last for 6 years for one unique time. The election was for mayors of the 81 cantons, syndics and district councilors for all the country's districts and 8 Intendants for 8 especial autonomous districts. Then ruling National Liberation Party was victorious retaining all but one of the mayorships it held before and 6 of the 7 provincial capitals (all except Liberia). The historical Social Christian Unity Party was the second largest municipal force as before and main opposition party Citizens' Action Party was the third largest unable to repeat its general success in presidential and legislative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernal Jiménez Monge
Bernal Jiménez Monge (8 January 1930 – 20 March 2021) was a Costa Rican economist and politician who served as MP. Jiménez was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1963 to 1966. He was president of the Central Bank of Costa Rica in 1973 and from 1974 to 1977. Later he was president of the Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1985. He was the president of National Liberation Party from 2010 to 2015. References 1930 births 2021 deaths Finance ministers of Costa Rica National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) politicians Presidents of the Central Bank of Costa Rica Presidents of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica {{CostaRica-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libertarian Movement (Costa Rica)
The Libertarian Movement Party (; PML) is a political party based on libertarian conservatism in Costa Rica. It was founded in May 1994. After an important protagonism during early 2000s with its perennial nominee Otto Guevara among the main candidates and reaching third place in 2006 and 2010, it was affected by several corruption scandals and lack of funds, the party gradually suffered a debacle in 2014 ending in fourth on the presidential ticket, and fifth in Parliament. Later losing all its mayors in the mid-term local election of 2016, to finally having bad results in 2018 with Guevara's candidacy reaching only 1% of support and losing all seats in Congress. History Founded by non-partisan liberals from the Academy and liberal defectors of Social Christian Unity Party, contested the 1998 election with Federico Malavassi as candidate receiving only 0.4% of the vote but succeeding in getting attorney Otto Guevara elected as member of the Legislative Assembly. In this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarrazú (canton)
Tarrazú is the fifth canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica. The head city of the canton is San Marcos. It is part of Los Santos Zone, together with Dota and León Cortés Castro. History The canton was established by a legislative decree of 7 August 1868. It was part of the Desamparados canton by that time. Government Mayor According to Costa Rica's Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton. As of the latest municipal elections in 2024, the Social Christian Unity Party candidate, Fernando Portuguez Parra, was elected mayor of the canton with 50.15% of the votes, with Marjorie Castro Barrantes and Alejandro Javier Bonilla Herrera as first and second vice mayors, respectively. Municipal Council Like the mayor and vice mayors, members of the Municipal Council (called ) are elected every four years. Tarrazú's Municipal Council has 5 seats for regidores and their substitutes, who can participate in meetings but not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puriscal (canton)
Puriscal is the 4th Cantons of Costa Rica, canton in the province of San José Province, San José, Costa Rica. The head city of the canton is Santiago District, Puriscal, Santiago. Toponymy In Spanish language, Spanish, a is the flower of the common bean. A is a field of flowering beans. History Puriscal canton was established by decree on 7 August 1868. Geography Puriscal has an area of and a mean elevation of . Chucás River delineates the canton's northernmost boundary, while the Chires River marks its far southern border, with the canton of Parrita Canton, Parrita in Puntarenas Province. Puriscal includes a significant portion of the Coastal Mountain Range. However, the canton is landlocked. Government Mayor According to Costa Rica's Local government in Costa Rica, Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton. As of the latest 2024 Costa Rican municipal elections, municipal elections in 2024, the National Liberation Party (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desamparados (canton)
Desamparados is the 3rd canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of , and had a population of in 2022, making it the third most populated among the 81 cantons of Costa Rica. The canton's capital city is also called Desamparados. The canton begins in the southern suburbs of the national capital city of San José, with the Tiribí River marking its northern boundary. It snakes its way south as a backward letter S, finally reaching its southern limit at the Tarrazú River. It contains the bigger of the last forest lungs in the Greater Metropolitan Area, the Loma Salitral, which conservation issues have generated social conflicts between community environmentalists and immobility developers, as it is seen as an identity mark of the desamparadeño people and a vital infiltration area to prevent the frequents and disastrous floods in the district of Gravilias. Urban areas claim 80.4% of the canton's population. Those under age 10 comprise 19.8% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escazú (canton)
Escazú is the second Cantons of Costa Rica, canton in the province of San José Province, San José in Costa Rica. The canton lies west of the San José Canton, and its whole territory is part of the Greater Metropolitan Area (Costa Rica), Greater Metropolitan Area. The canton was one of the country's earliest, established on December 7, 1848. As the metropolitan area has expanded Escazú has become a suburban area on the west side of the national capital city of San José, Costa Rica, San José. It is delineated by the Río Tiribí on its northern border. The peak of Cerro Cedral in the Cerros de Escazú marks the southern limit of the canton. Toponymy The name "Escazú" derives from the indigenous word "Izt-kat-zu", which means "resting stone". The story tells of Indians traveling from Aserrí (canton), Aserrí (south of San José) to Pacaca (near Ciudad Colón), who used to stop and rest at this location, which was about halfway between the two villages. History Escazú wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Araya
Johnny Francisco Araya Monge (born 29 April 1957) is a Costa Rican politician. He was the mayor of the country's capital San José from 1998 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2024. He was also the co-president of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) from 2010 to 2013. He is a member of the National Liberation Party (PLN) and was a presidential candidate in the 2014 election. Early life Johnny Araya was born in 1957. He is the nephew of Luis Alberto Monge, who was President of Costa Rica from 1982 to 1986. Araya graduated from the University of Costa Rica's Faculty of Agronomy in 1980. Career Araya worked as an agronomic engineer for many years. Elected councilor of the City of San José for the first time in 1982, he participated in the Harvard Institute for International Development's one-month program for mayors of Latin America and the Caribbean in 1992. Mayor and international organizations official He was mayor of the city between 1998 and 2001 and since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San José (canton)
San José or San Jose (Spanish for Saint Joseph) most often refers to: *San Jose, California, United States *San José, Costa Rica, the nation's capital San José or San Jose may also refer to: Places Argentina * San José, Buenos Aires ** San José (Buenos Aires Underground), a railway station ** San José vieja (Buenos Aires Underground), a ghost railway station * San José, Santa María, Catamarca * San José, Entre Ríos * San José de Balcarce, Buenos Aires * San José de Feliciano, Entre Ríos * San José de Fray Mamerto Esquiú, Catamarca * San José de Jáchal, San Juan * San José de Metán, Salta * Colonia San José, La Pampa Belize * San José, Orange Walk Bolivia * San José, Andrés Ibáñez *San José de Chiquitos Chile * San José de la Mariquina * San José de Maipo Colombia * San José de Albán, a town and municipality in the Nariño Department * San José, Caldas, a town and municipality in the Caldas Department * San José de Pare, a town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Rican Renewal Party
The Costa Rican Renewal Party () is a Christian political party in Costa Rica. History Established in 1995, as a splinter of the National Christian Alliance, the party first participated in national elections in 1998, when its presidential candidate, Sherman Thomas Jackson, received 1.4% of the vote, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p182 whilst they won a single seat in the parliamentary elections, taken by pastor and lawyer Justo Orozco. During the 1999–2000 popular protests against the electric liberalization bill known as ''Combo ICE'', Orozco supported the protests and voted against the bill. Orozco was the party's presidential candidate in 2002, finishing fifth with 1.1% of the vote. The party also retained its sole parliamentary seat in the elections, taken by Carlos Avendaño. However, Avendaño left the party and founded his own ( National Restoration Party). In the 2006 elections, the party's candidate Bolívar Serrano Hida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Politics
The relationship between Christianity and politics is a historically complex subject and a frequent source of disagreement throughout the history of Christianity, as well as in modern politics between the Christian right and Christian left. There have been a wide variety of ways in which thinkers have conceived of this relationship, with many arguing that Christianity directly supports a particular political ideology or philosophy. Along these lines, various thinkers have argued for Christian communism, Christian socialism, Christian nationalism, Christian anarchism, Christian libertarianism, Christian democracy, Christian fascism, the divine right of kings, or Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality, tsarist autocracy. Others believe that Christians should have little interest or participation in politics or government, or none at all. History Antiquity Early Christianity was most prominent in the Roman Empire, where it was illegal to practice Christianity and Persecution o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religious
Religion is a range of social- cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith,Tillich, P. (1957) ''Dynamics of faith''. Harper Perennial; (p. 1). and a supernatural being or beings. The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. Religions have sacred histories, narratives, and mythologies, preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe, and other phe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
