History of the Costa Rican legislature information

The history of the Costa Rican legislature is long and starts from even before its formal independence from the Spanish Empire. Costa Rica is one of the...

The First Costa Rican Republic is the name given to the historical period between the proclamation of the Republic of Costa Rica in the 1848 reformed...

Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for encomienda (forced labor), which meant most of the Costa Rican...

The Constitution of Costa Rica is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War, José Figueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa...

proclamation of the First Costa Rican Republic in 1847. Costa Rica as a member state of the Central American Federation was officially named the State of Costa Rica...

districts (distritos). Costa Rica portal Government portal ISO 3166-2:CR Cantons of Costa Rica Districts of Costa Rica List of Costa Rican provinces by Human...

from the Past. Natural History. Retrieved 2010-03-31. Gazetteer of Costa Rican Plant-Collecting Locales: Diquís (or Dikís) from the website of the Missouri...

(1924–2011) was a Costa Rican teacher, lawyer and politician. She was one of the first three women elected to the Costa Rican legislature in the first election...

independently from the executive and the legislature, but is involved in the political process. Costa Rica has a strong system of constitutional checks and balances...

The Legislative Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Legislativa) forms the unicameral legislative branch of the Costa Rican government. The national congress...

elected Costa Rican Vice-President of the Republic presided over the Legislature. In the Costa Rican constitutions of 1859, 1869 and 1871, the role of popularly...

into districts. Cantons are the only administrative division in Costa Rica that possess local government in the form of municipalities. Each municipality...

in southeastern Costa Rica, known simply as Puerto Viejo to locals. The town was originally called Old Harbour until the Costa Rican government institutionalized...

from all Costa Rican ID cards issued since October 2018. The Costa Rican Government announced that it would apply the rulings in the following months...

The president of the Republic of Costa Rica is the head of state and head of government of Costa Rica. The president is currently elected in direct elections...

44-day Costa Rican Civil War. Blanco started his career in politics as a journalist, director of local newspaper La Tribuna and owner of Diario de Costa Rica...

March 1959) is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's...

system IPU Gender equality ruling aims for nearly 50/50 male-female Costa Rican legislature Tico Times, 27 May 2016 "PAC elegirá su candidato a Presidente...

system IPU Gender equality ruling aims for nearly 50/50 male-female Costa Rican legislature Tico Times, May 27, 2016 Murillo, Álvaro; Rodríguez, Frank (24...

during the Costa Rican Civil War liberalism was relegated to a secondary role after the Second Costa Rican Republic with the development of Costa Rica's...

1944 election, through means legal and illegal. The campaign season was particularly ugly by Costa Rican standards, at times turning violent. According...

Tico Times, 2014-04-06. "Mapa de Resultados Elecciones Costa Rica Abril 2014" [Costa Rican Map of April 2014 Electoral Results]. RESULTADOS ELECTORALES...

while conservative Costa Rican Renewal Party won one seat as usual. It was the first time in Costa Rica an evangelical Christian party, the Christian National...

in Costa Rica on 6 February 1994. José María Figueres of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary...

elections were held in Costa Rica on 4 February 1990. Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier of the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC) won the presidential election...

Gary (15 February 2014). "Costa Rican legislative elections show growing voter dissatisfaction with traditional choices". The Tico Times. Retrieved 13...

liberal Libertarian Movement and Christian conservative Costa Rican Renewal won seats (one each) in the Parliament both for their future presidential candidates...

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 5 February 2006. In the presidential election, Óscar Arias of the National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación...