National Restoration Party (Costa Rica)

For other uses, see National Restoration Party (disambiguation).
National Restoration party
Partido Restauración Nacional
PresidentCarlos Avendaño Calvo
Secretary-GeneralMónica Catalán Marín
Founded5 February 2005[1]
Split fromCosta Rican Renewal Party
IdeologyConservatism[2]
Social conservatism
Christian right
Anti-immigration
Political positionRight-wing[3][4][5]
ReligionEvangelical Christianity
Colours  Blue
  Yellow
Legislative Assembly
0 / 57
Alderpeople
10 / 508
Syndics
3 / 486
District councillors
23 / 1,944
Intendants
0 / 8
Party flag
Website
restauracion.cr

The National Restoration Party (Spanish: Partido Restauración Nacional – PRN or PREN) is a political party in Costa Rica. It was founded in 2005 by Carlos Avendaño Calvo mostly by dissidents of Costa Rica's historical Christian party, Costa Rican Renewal, after its then only deputy, Carlos Avendaño Calvo, left.[1] Avendaño would successfully return to Congress because of the party from 2010 to 2014. Even though he had personal differences with Justo Orozco (then the PRC's only deputy), both were able to work together in defending the same agenda, mainly the conservative views of the evangelical community. The party's candidate in the presidential election of 2014 was Avendaño, who received 1.35 percent of the vote.[6]

In the same year's parliamentary election, Gerardo Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz, representing San José, was elected to the only seat in the Legislative Assembly that was won by the party.[7]

In the 2018 Costa Rican general elections, the party won 14 of the parliament seats and its presidential candidate, Fabricio Alvarado, went in to the runoff.[8] According to the BBC, his campaign gained in popularity because of his opposition to same-sex marriage.[9] The party also holds anti-immigration positions and calls for closed borders and harsher controls on migrants.[10]

  1. ^ a b Partido Político Restauración Nacional Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. Retrieved: 2014-03-05. (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Estatuto Partido Restauración Nacional Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. Retrieved: 2014-05-10. (in Spanish)
  3. ^ "Global Elections Round-Up: Last 12 Months". Fitch Solutions. 31 July 2018.
  4. ^ Kane, Gillian (30 March 2018). "'Gender ideology': big, bogus and coming to a fear campaign near you". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  5. ^ Pérez, Karla (January 2018). "Fabricio Alvarado: Hay que implementar una política migratoria fuerte". El Mundo.
  6. ^ Resultados Electorales: Total General Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. 2014-02-17. (in Spanish)
  7. ^ Declaratoria de elección de Diputados a la Asamblea Legislativa de la República de Costa Rica 2014-2018 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, 2014-03-03. (in Spanish)
  8. ^ "Costa Rica poll goes into runoff as evangelical leads". BBC News. 5 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Costa Rica election: Gay marriage debate dominates campaign". BBC News Online. 4 February 2018. p. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42938510. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  10. ^ Chinchilla, Aaron (25 July 2018). "Restauración Nacional exige al Gobierno reforzar controles migratorios en Peñas Blancas". El Periódico.