The Independent Guanacaste Party (Spanish: Partido Guanacaste Independiente') was a political party in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Its president was José Angel Jara Chavarría, and the General Secretary Luis Eduardo (Chito) Arata Herrero.
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The party was founded in 1989 and first contested general elections in 1994. However, it received only 0.2% of the vote and failed to win a seat.[1] In the 1998 elections it received just 0.1% of the vote and remained without parliamentary representation.
In 2010 the party was officially declared as "cancelled" by the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones.[2]
References
edit- ^ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, pp173-175 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- ^ "Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, Partidos cancelados".
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