National Integration Party
Partido Integración Nacional
PresidentDr. Walter Muñoz Cespedes
Secretary-GeneralMarta Floribeth Cordero Rivera
TreasurerRóger Bejarano Morejón
First vice presidentRaúl Ernesto Bermúdez Jiménez
Second vice presidentVivian González Trejos
Founded30 January 1996 (1996-01-30)
HeadquartersImagenes medicas building, 2nd floor, Calderon Guardia Square, San José
IdeologySocial conservatism
Economic nationalism
Right-wing populism
Participative democracy
Political positionRight-wing
ColorsLight blue, blue
Legislative Assembly
0 / 57
Mayors
0 / 82
Alderpeople
9 / 508
Syndics
7 / 486
District councillors
40 / 1,944
Intendants
1 / 8
Website
Official website

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-time presidential candidate, normally with about 1% or less of the vote. In the 2018 election, it endorsed the candidacy of former minister and defense lawyer Juan Diego Castro reaching 9% of the vote, although Castro and the party angrily split pathways soon after the election.

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. In that election, the party's vice-presidential candidate was the historic leftist leader and professor Álvaro Montero Mejía. However, two weeks before the election, the party stopped its campaign and endorsed Otton Solís, from Citizens' Action Party, in an effort to build a progressive alliance against Laura Chinchilla, candidate of the National Liberation Party. 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] In 2016 Costa Rican municipal elections, the party won the position of syndic of the district of Santa Cruz for its candidate Arcadio Carrera. In 2020 Costa Rican municipal elections, Carrera ran for Mayor of Santa Cruz. Incumbent Vicemayor of Golfito, Hannia Herra, elected originally by the National Liberation Party in 2016 election, joined the party and is also a candidate for Mayor of Golfito for 2020. Carrera and Herra's platforms are mainly seen as progressive and even leftist, opposing domination of beach areas by big resorts in their respective cantons.

According to Muñoz the party opposes taxes, immigration, same-sex marriage and same-sex civil unions,[3] and it also supports a public monopoly of fuel distribution.[4] The party supports state control of prices for medicine, which are unregulated in Costa Rica.[5] It also has opposed reductions of the public healthcare budget for combating cancer.[6] One of the party's congresswomen, Patricia Villegas, is especially known for her efforts on modernizing national laws on HIV, in order to promote the human rights of HIV positive people.[7]

Notable members

Electoral performance

Presidential

Election Candidate First round Second round
Votes % Position Result Votes % Position Result
1998 Walter Muñoz Céspedes 19,934 1.44% 4th Lost —
2002 6,235 0.41% Decrease 6th Lost —
2006 5,136 0.32% Decrease 9th Lost —
2010 3,198 0.17% Steady 9th Lost —
2014 3,042 0.15% Decrease 13th Lost —
2018 Juan Diego Castro 205,602 9.54% Increase 5th Lost —
2022 Walter Muñoz Céspedes 3,022 0.14% Decrease 21st Lost —

Parliamentary

Election Leader Votes  % Seats +/– Position Government
1998 Walter Muñoz Céspedes 38,408 2.78%
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 New 5th Opposition
2002 26,084 1.71%
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 Decrease 1 Decrease 7th Extra-parliamentary
2006 12,945 0.80%
0 / 57
 Steady 0 Decrease 14th Extra-parliamentary
2010 14,643 0.76%
0 / 57
 Steady 0 Increase 10th Extra-parliamentary
2014 11,307 0.55%
0 / 57
 Steady 0 Decrease 14th Extra-parliamentary
2018 163,933 7.67%
4 / 57
 Increase 4 Increase 5th Opposition
2022 22,710 1.09%
0 / 57
 Decrease 4 Decrease 15th Extra-parliamentary

References

  1. ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p175 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
  2. ↑ Resultados Electorales: Total General Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. 2014-02-17. (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ Arrieta, Esteban (8 June 2017). "¿Qué piensa el PIN de migración, impuestos y matrimonio gay?" (in Spanish). La República. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  4. ↑ Gallegos, José Quirós (January 16, 2018). "PIN en contra de eliminar monopolio de Recope".
  5. ↑ "Proponen controlar precios de medicamentos". July 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ González, Karla Pérez (September 3, 2019). "Aprueban proyecto que reduce en un 5% recursos para programas de lucha contra el cáncer de la CCSS".
  7. ↑ "Diario Extra - Dejan en firme reforma a ley de VIH". www.diarioextra.com.
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