United We Can

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
Colours	Purple and Orange
Legislative Assembly	0 / 57
Mayors	1 / 82
Alderpeople	11 / 508
Syndics	5 / 486
District councillors	36 / 1,944
Intendants	0 / 8
Website
www.unidospodemos.cr
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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]

References

1. Alfaro, Josué (24 May 2018). "Natalia Díaz intentará impulsar un nuevo partido liberal, aunque "menos radical"". Semanario Universidad. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
2. "Unidos Podemos, el partido municipal con el que exdiputada libertaria vuelve a la política". El País. 22 October 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
3. Pérez, Karla (19 November 2018). "Partido Unidos Podemos completó asambleas cantonales y provinciales para inscribirse ante TSE". Mundo. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
4. Pérez, Karla (25 November 2018). "Unidos Podemos culmina hoy oficialmente su inscripción como partido nacional". Mundo. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
5. "507 - DRPP - 201 8" (PDF). Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
6. Ruiz, Gerardo (18 December 2018). "Partidos conservadores preparan una coalición electoral". CRHoy. Retrieved 18 December 2018.

See also

• Liberalism in Costa Rica