Social Christian Republican Party

Social Christian Republican Party
Partido Republicano Socialcristiano
President Dragos Dolanescu Valenciano
Secretary-General Rodolfo Sotomayor Aguilar
Presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández Gómez
Founded 28 June 2014
Split from Social Christian Unity Party
Ideology Christian democracy
Conservatism
Social conservatism
Political position Centre-right
Colours Blue, Red and Yellow
Legislative Assembly
2 / 57
Mayors
1 / 81
Aldermen
48 / 495
Party flag
Website

The Social Christian Republican Party is a Costa Rican political party founded in 2014 by former president Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier and his group of supporters as a splinter from the historical Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC).[1] The party also uses the colors and a similar name of Calderón's father's party, the National Republican Party.[2]

The Party was created soon after the Calderonistas left PUSC due to unusually harsh clashes among the Calderonista and Liberal factions inside the party during the general election of 2014. Both factions have been historically rivals but generally work together after the primaries, but after the 2013 presidential primary in which the Calderonista candidate Dr. Rodolfo Hernández won, internal fighting between Hernández and the Liberal-led National Committee caused Hernández's resignation.

Hernández and Calderón founded the PRSC a few months after the election, and its first election was in the 2016 municipal elections, with the party electing one mayor, one intedant and several aldermen and syndics.[3] Its candidate for the Costa Rican general election, 2018, is Hernández.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Cambronero, Natasha (2014). "Exmilitantes del PUSC fundan nuevo partido cercano a expresidente Calderón". La Nación.
  2. ↑ Booth, John A.; yes (January 2008). Paul Webb and Stephen White, ed. Political Parties in Costa Rica: Democratic Stability and Party System Change in a Latin American Context (1 ed.). Oxford: Oxford Scholarship Online. ISBN 9780199289653. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Costa Rica: Opposition Party Wins Most Seats in Local Elections". Telesur. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Rodríguez, Frank (2016). "Tras doble renuncia en elecciones pasadas, doctor Rodolfo Hernández vuelve a aspirar a la Presidencia". Amelia Rueda.
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