In December 2020 the CIVICUS Monitor downgraded Costa Rica’s civic space from open to narrowed, largely as a result of the worsening conditions for Indigenous human rights defenders and the government’s efforts to limit the right to strike and criminalise protest.
TRIBUNAL SUPREMO DE ELECCIONES COSTA RICA FULL
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index has long classed Costa Rica as a full democracy, albeit at the lower end of the scale. Unlike most Latin American countries, Costa Rica did not experience dictatorships, military coups or civil wars between the 1960s and 1980s unlike a few others with a similar history, notably Venezuela, it also didn’t see later processes of democratic erosion and become an autocracy. Scoring only 16.8 per cent in the first round, the man who would be president – a newcomer economist with a far from pristine record who campaigned for the renewal of politics and promised to ‘put the house in order’ – barely scraped into the run-off. They included the candidate of the ruling Citizen Action Party, who came a distant 10 th, with 0.7 per cent its legislative list received 2.2 per cent, earning no seats in the Legislative Assembly. Votes cast in the presidential race were distributed among numerous candidates, including a whopping 19 contenders who each got less than one per cent. Had it been up to them, Costa Rica’s highest political office would have remained vacant.Ībstention and political fragmentation reached record levels in 2022. In February, just over 40 per cent of registered voters – the threshold a candidate must surpass to be elected in the first round – didn’t bother to vote. But the pair that emerged from the February first-round vote – José María Figueres Olsen of the long-established National Liberation Party (PLN) and surprise challenger Rodrigo Chaves Robles of the upstart Social Democratic Progress Party – hardly went into the run-off with enthusiastic public backing. To make the definitive declaration of the election of the President and Vice President of the Republic, within thirty days following the date of the voting and within the term determined by law.Costa Rica’s 3 April presidential run-off election pitted the top two candidates against each other. Execute the definitive scrutiny of the votes cast in the elections of President and Vice President of the Republic, Deputies to the Legislative Assembly, members of the Municipalities and Representatives to Constituent Assemblies.To dictate, with respect to the Public Force, the pertinent measures so that the electoral processes are carried out under conditions of unrestricted guarantees and freedom.To investigate by itself or by means of delegates, and to pronounce with respect to any denunciation formulated by the parties on political partiality of the servants of the State in the exercise of their positions or on political activities of officials who are prohibited from exercising them.To hear on appeal the resolutions issued by the Civil Registry and the Electoral Boards.To interpret in an exclusive and obligatory manner the constitutional and legal dispositions referring to electoral matters.To appoint the members of the Electoral Boards.The Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Costa Rica has, according to Article 102 of the Political Constitution of 1949, among some of its functions: The Tribunal is the highest constitutional body in electoral matters and therefore responsible for the organization, direction and supervision of the acts related to suffrage.īy reform of the Political Constitution on June 5, 1975, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal was granted the same rank and independence of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers of Costa Rica, making the institution legally the fourth power of the Republic.
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It was created in 1949, when the current Political Constitution of this Central American nation was enacted.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Costa Rica is the supreme electoral body of the Republic of Costa Rica.
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