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The Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica (TSE) (Spanish: Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica), is the supreme election commission of the Republic of Costa Rica. The Electoral Court was established in 1949 by the present Constitution of Costa Rica.
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 ...
José Simeón Guerrero de Arcos y Cervantes: 1833–1836: Elected in 1833, abandoned in 1836 and Court was dissolved Luz Blanco y Zamora: 1836–1839: Pedro César y Urroz: 1839–1841: Luz Blanco y Zamora: 1841–1842: José Rafael de Gallegos y Alvarado: Elected in 1842, refused to take office Nicolás Ulloa Soto: Elected in 1842, refused to ...
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 most votes. [2]
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 ...
The Supreme Court of Costa Rica (Spanish: Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa Rica) is the court of greater hierarchy of Law and Justice in Costa Rica. [1] Established on 25 January 1825, the current president of the Supreme Court of Justice is Fernando Cruz Castro since 1 August 2018. All of the courts in the country are dependent on the ...
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.
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 2022, to elect the president, two vice-presidents, and all 57 deputies of the Legislative Assembly.As none of the presidential nominees obtained at least 40% of the votes, a runoff was held on 3 April 2022, between the top two candidates, José María Figueres and Rodrigo Chaves Robles.