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Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves could become the first sitting president in the country's history to lose immunity from ...
Costa Rica's top court on Tuesday asked Congress to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of immunity for the first time, enabling a ...
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The National Liberation Party (PLN) won 58 of 80 votes in the elections yesterday, which represented 72% of the cantons in Costa Rica. This is reflected in data released by the Supreme Electoral ...
In early February, I had the opportunity to represent the United States as an international observer of the municipal elections in Costa Rica. I attended at the invitation of the constitutional ...
In terms of gender parity, Costa Rica is one of the world's leading countries at national level with 47 per cent of women in the Asamblea Legislativa. At municipal level, however, only eight women ...
If a political party intends to nominate a trans person for a position of mayor, councilor or trustee, it must do so according to their registered sex and not according to their self-perceived gender.
FILE - Nicaraguans exiled in Costa Rica march in a protest against Nicaragua's municipal elections, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Nov. 6, 2022.
In Costa Rica’s runoff on Sunday, voters will decide between a candidate found to have sexually harassed junior employees at the World Bank and a former president once accused of corruption.
Costa Rica’s president will be decided in a runoff after none of the record twenty-five candidates managed to secure enough votes to win during the February 6 election. On April 3, former ...
Costa Rica's Citizens' Action Party broke 60 years of bipartisan rule in 2014, but after two terms in power it was practically erased from the country's political map in national elections.