Presidential election in Costa Rica 2022
The 2022 Costa Rica presidential election will be the 18th Costa Rican presidential election of this kind under the 1949 Constitution . Both the new President and two Vice-Presidents are to be elected. According to projections, Figueres received the most votes in the first ballot on February 6, 2022. However, since his trio of candidates did not receive more than 40% of the vote, a runoff is scheduled for April 3, 2022. Parallel to the first ballot, all 57 members of the Legislative Assembly were re-elected in the general election.
background
The last presidential election before that was in 2018 . However, there was no clear favorite and none of the candidates was able to prevail in the first round. This was won by Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz of the right-wing Evangelical Partido Restauración Nacional with 24.91% of the votes ahead of Carlos Alvarado Quesada of the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana , which also included the previous President Luis Guillermo Solís , with 21.63 % of the votes are won. Both candidates then entered the runoff election with their candidates for the office of vice president. With 60.59%, Carlos Alvarado Quasada was able to clearly assert himself against his conservative opponent candidate Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz and then took up the presidency on May 8, 2018. In the second half from 2020, his term of office was primarily characterized by the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and by a corruption scandal, as a result of which his approval ratings at the time of the 2022 election were just over 10%.
voting system
The President and the two Vice Presidents of Costa Rica are directly elected by the people. The candidates compete together as teams. According to Article 138 of the 1949 Constitution, obtaining 40% of the votes in the first ballot is sufficient to be elected President of the Republic. If neither team has more than 40% of the votes, a runoff will take place between the two teams that managed to collect the most votes in the first round. In addition, according to the constitution, presidents and vice presidents must also meet the following requirements:
- Being native Costa Ricans
- Being secular , meaning not belonging to the clergy
- Being older than 30 years of age
In addition, the previous two presidents are excluded from the election, so re-election is not possible. There are also special hurdles for vice presidents, ministers, judges and relatives of former presidents.
candidates
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Result
After 87.73% of the votes were counted, former President José María Figueres Olsen of the Partido Liberación Nacional and his vice-presidential candidates had a clear lead with 27.27% of the votes. This will put him in the runoff against Rodrigo Chaves Robles of the Partido Progreso Social Democratático , who is in second place with 16.72% of the vote. In addition, the candidates Fabricio Alvarado , Lineth Saborío Chaverri , Eliécer Feinzaig Mintz and José María Villalta Florez-Estrada each received between eight and 15% of the votes, the remaining candidates lagged behind with less than one percent of the votes.
itemizations
- ↑ Costa Rica: Figueres and Chaves Go to Second Round. Retrieved February 7, 2022 (US English).
- ↑ Elecciones en Costa Rica 2022: candidates, qué se vote y panorama. In: CNN. February 4, 2022, retrieved February 5, 2022 (Spanish).
- ↑ Article 138 of the Costa Rican Constitution of 1949
- ↑ Article 131 of the Costa Rican Constitution of 1949
- ↑ EF Explica: ¿A cuáles puestos de gobierno pueden acceder los clérigos en Costa Rica? Retrieved 5 February 2022 (Spanish).
- ↑ Article 132 of the Costa Rican Constitution of 1949
- ↑ Resultados Electorales 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022 .