National Integration Party (Costa Rica)
National Integration Party Partido Integración Nacional | |
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| President | Dr. Walter Muñoz Cespedes |
| Secretary-General | Heiner Alberto Lemaitre Zamora |
| Treasurer | Vernor Juan Mesén Jiménez |
| First vicepresident | Claribel Melendez Magaña |
| Second vicepresident | Elizabeth Aguilar Quesada |
| Founded | January 30, 1996 |
| Headquarters | Imagenes medicas building, second floor, west side of the Hospital Calderon Guardia's square |
| Regional affiliation | Union of Latin American Parties (observer) |
| Colors | Light blue, Blue |
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The National Integration Party (Spanish: Partido Integración Nacional) is a political party in Costa Rica. The party mainly endorses perennial candidate Dr. Walter Muñoz Céspedes, a San Jose medical doctor and five times presidential candidate, normally with testimonial results surrounding 1% or less of the votes.
The party first contested general elections in 1998, in which it won a single seat,[1] taken by Walter Muñoz Céspedes, who was also their candidate in the presidential election, where he finished fourth with 1.4%. However, the party lost its seat in the 2002 elections in which it received 1.7% of the vote. In the presidential election that year Muñoz finished sixth with just 0.4%. In the 2010 elections the party received only 0.8% of the vote and remained without parliamentary representation, whilst Muñoz won just 0.17% of the vote in the presidential elections. For the 2014 election Muñoz was, again, both presidential and legislative candidate gaining around 3000 votes (0.21%), the least voted candidate in that election.[2] The party has no deputies or mayors though it does has municipal councillors, syndics, district councillors and one Intendant.[3]
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