People's Vanguard Party (Costa Rica)

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Vanguardia Popular
President	Trino Barrantes Araya
General Secretary	Humberto Vargas Carbonell
Founded	1943
Headquarters	Desamparados, Calle Fallas, Ciudadela Cucubres, de la plaza de deportes 50 metros sur, casa Nº 11
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism Socialism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	IMCWP[1]
Legislative Assembly	0 / 57
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The People's Vanguard Party, or Popular Vanguard Party (in Spanish: Partido Vanguardia Popular) is a communist party in Costa Rica. PVP was founded in 1931 as the Workers and Farmers Party, but was soon renamed to the Communist Party of Costa Rica (Partido Comunista de Costa Rica).

From 1931 to 1947, the party published Trabajo as a communist newspaper.^[2] The PVP's current publication is El Popular.

History[]

In 1943 the party was renamed as PVP, in order to facilitate its alliance with the Catholic Church and the government, whose reformist policies the party supported.^[3]

In 1949 the party was banned. Its militants began working under the name 'Partido Acción Socialista Obrera'.^[4]

In the mid-1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 300.^[5]

In 1970, the party again could contest elections.^[4]

In 1984, a severe internal crisis appeared in the party. At the 14th party congress, two of the party MPs, Arnoldo Ferreto Segura and Humberto Vargas Carbonell took over the party leadership and deposed Mora (who had led the party since 1934). Mora's followers continued to use the name PVP, thus there were two parties with the same name. In 1984 Mora's party took the name Costa Rican People's Party.^[4]

Electoral performance[]

Presidential[]

Election	Leader	First round				Coalition
		Votes	%	Position	Result
1936	Manuel Mora Valverde	4,594	5.3%	3/3	Lost	-
1940	Manuel Mora Valverde	10,825	9.8%	2/3	Lost	-
1944	Teodoro Picado Michalski	52,830	75.1%	1/2	Won	Victory Bloc
1948	Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia	44,438	44.7%	2/2	Lost	Victory Bloc
1953	Banned
1958
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978	Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz	22,740	2.7%	3/8	Lost	United People
1982	Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz	32,186	3.3%	4/6	Lost	United People
1986	Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz	9,099	0.8%	3/6	Lost	Peoples' Alliance
1990	Víctor Daniel Camacho Monge	9,217	0.7%	3/7	Lost	United People
1994	Did not participate
1998	Norma Vargas Duarte	3,075	0.2%	10/12	Lost	United People
2002	Walter Coto Molina	3,970	0.2%	8/13	Lost	Change 2000
2006	Humberto Vargas Carbonell	2,291	0.1%	13/14	Lost	United Left
2010	Did not participate
2014
2018	Humberto Vargas Carbonell	12,309	0.6%	11/13	Lost	Workers’ Party

See also[]

• Category:People's Vanguard Party (Costa Rica) politicians
• Manuel Mora
• Joaquín Gutiérrez

References[]

External links[]

• Official Website

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