Constitutional Party (Costa Rica)
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The name Constitutional was used for several loosely connected
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parties throughout history. The first was the Constitutional Convention Party (''Partido Convención Constitucional''), also the first ever Costa Rican political party. It was formed in 1868 to oppose the presidential candidacy of
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, but disbanded soon after. Later Conservative candidate
José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón (6 January 1837 – 30 November 1917) was List of Presidents of Costa Rica, President of Costa Rica from 1890 to 1894. Rodríguez was born on 6 January 1837. He studied law at the University of San Carlos of Gu ...
, who was endorsed by the
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, was nominated by the Democratic Constitutional Party in the first ever elections with political parties in Costa Rica, the 1889 Costa Rican general election facing
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of the also newly founded Liberal Party. After its main goal was accomplished, Rodriguez' victory, the party disbanded. Julio Acosta will be candidate for the Constitutional PartyNohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p155 in the 1919 Costa Rican general election soon after the end of Federico Tinoco's two-year long dictatorship. As with other cases, the party was strongly personalist and disappear after the election. A more ideologically coherent party name Constitutional was founded by lawyers in order to take part in the 1948 Costa Rican Constituent Assembly election after the
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. The party was rumored to be led by the then outlaw
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who lost the war, but although most of its members were relatives of Calderonistas they never held offices during Calderon's party government and were allowed to participate, to the point that even the
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gave them an extension to end the conformation of the party thanks to then
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Otilio Ulate Luis Rafael de la Trinidad Otilio Ulate Blanco (August 25, 1891 – October 10, 1973) served as President of Costa Rica Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north ...
intervention. The party was the second political force in the Costa Rican Constituent Assembly and also in the following 1949 Costa Rican general election.


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