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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.
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]
Costa Rica has no military but maintains a domestic police force and a Special Forces Unit as part of the Ministry of the President. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Costa Rica a "full democracy" in 2023. [3] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices Costa Rica was in 2023 the most electoral democratic country in Latin America. [4]
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 ...
Costa Rica (UK: / ˌ k ɒ s t ə ˈ r iː k ə /, US: / ˌ k oʊ s t ə-/ ⓘ; Spanish: [ˈkosta ˈrika]; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.
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 ...
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.
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.