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 January 30, 1996 (1996-01-30)
Headquarters Imagenes medicas building, second floor, west side of the Hospital Calderon Guardia's square
Regional affiliation Union of Latin American Parties (observer)
Colors Light blue, Blue
Party flag

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.

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] The party has no deputies or mayors though it does has municipal councillors, syndics, district councillors and one Intendant.[3]

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. (Spanish)
  3. "Results". Electoral Tribunal. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
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