United We Can (Spanish: Unidos Podemos) is a Costa Rican classical liberal political party founded by the former deputy and former Libertarian Movement member Natalia Díaz Quintana.[1][2] The party culminated its process of cantonal and provincial assemblies in November 2018 allowing it to participate in the 2020 Costa Rican municipal elections.[3][4]
United We Can Unidos Podemos | |
|---|---|
| President | Natalia Diaz |
| Secretary-General | José Alberto Grillo Rosanía |
| Founded | 28 November 2018 |
| Ideology | Classical liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
| Colours | Purple and Orange |
| Legislative Assembly | 0 / 57 |
| Mayors | 9 / 84 |
| Alderpeople | 39 / 518 |
| Syndics | 36 / 491 |
| District councillors | 130 / 1,936 |
| Intendants | 2 / 7 |
| Party flag | |
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| Website | |
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The party was founded by Díaz, who was deputy for the 2014-2018 period from Otto Guevara's Libertarian Movement. She would face Guevara in the party's first primary election, the National Libertarian Convention of 2017. Diaz lost with only a 10% gap. Díaz would not support Guevara as a candidate in the 2018 general election and would in fact give her adhesion to PNL nominee Antonio Álvarez Desanti. She started the creation of the party shortly after the presidential run ended, concluding it in November 2018.[5]
As of 2018, the party began talks with other political forces such as New Generation, the Christian Democratic Alliance, Costa Rican Renewal, the Social Christian Republican Party, the Libertarian Movement and a faction of the Social Christian Unity Party to negotiate a right-wing coalition for the 2022 election; however, the talks stalled.[6]
Electoral performance
editPresidential
edit| Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Position | Result | Votes | % | Position | Result | ||
| 2022 | Natalia Díaz Quintana | 16,496 | 0.79% | 9th | Lost | — | |||
Parliamentary
edit| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Natalia Díaz Quintana | 21,100 | 1.02% | 0 / 57
|
New | 16th | Extra-parliamentary |
References
edit- ^ Alfaro, Josué (24 May 2018). "Natalia Díaz intentará impulsar un nuevo partido liberal, aunque "menos radical"". Semanario Universidad. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Unidos Podemos, el partido municipal con el que exdiputada libertaria vuelve a la política". El País. 22 October 2018. Archived from the original on 20 December 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- ^ Pérez, Karla (19 November 2018). "Partido Unidos Podemos completó asambleas cantonales y provinciales para inscribirse ante TSE". Mundo. Retrieved 20 December 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Pérez, Karla (25 November 2018). "Unidos Podemos culmina hoy oficialmente su inscripción como partido nacional". Mundo. Retrieved 20 December 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "507 - DRPP - 201 8" (PDF). Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 December 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- ^ Ruiz, Gerardo (18 December 2018). "Partidos conservadores preparan una coalición electoral". CRHoy. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2018.