National Integration Party (Costa Rica)

National Integration Party
Partido Integración Nacional
President Dr. Walter Muñoz Cespedes
Secretary-General Heiner Alberto Lemaitre Zamora
Treasurer Vernor Juan Mesén Jiménez
First vicepresident Claribel Melendez Magaña
Second vicepresident Elizabeth Aguilar Quesada
Founded 30 January 1996 (1996-01-30)
Headquarters Imagenes medicas building, second floor, west side of the Hospital Calderon Guardia's square
Ideology Catch all party
Political position Centre to Centre-right
Colors Light blue, Blue
Legislative Assembly
3 / 57
Intendants
1 / 8
Aldermen
5 / 495
Party flag
Website
Official website

The National Integration Party (Spanish: Partido Integración Nacional) is a political party in Costa Rica. The party mainly endorses perennial candidate Dr. Walter Muñoz Céspedes, a San Jose medical doctor and five times presidential candidate, normally with testimonial results surrounding 1% or less of the votes. In the past 2018 election it endorsed the candidacy of former minister and defense lawyer Juan Diego Castro reaching 9% of the vote, although Castro and the party angrily split pathways soon after the election.

The party first contested general elections in 1998, in which it won a single seat,[1] taken by Walter Muñoz Céspedes, who was also their candidate in the presidential election, where he finished fourth with 1.4%. However, the party lost its seat in the 2002 elections in which it received 1.7% of the vote. In the presidential election that year Muñoz finished sixth with just 0.4%. In the 2010 elections the party received only 0.8% of the vote and remained without parliamentary representation, whilst Muñoz won just 0.17% of the vote in the presidential elections. For the 2014 election Muñoz was, again, both presidential and legislative candidate gaining around 3000 votes (0.21%), the least voted candidate in that election.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p175 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
  2. ↑ Resultados Electorales: Total General Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. 2014-02-17. (in Spanish)
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