The People's Vanguard Party, or Popular Vanguard Party () was a Marxist-Leninist 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. 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.Aguilar Hernández, Marielos. Costa Rica en el siglo XX: Luchas sociales y conquistas laborales. San José: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001. p. 22
In 1949, the party was banned. Its militants began working under the name 'Partido Acción Socialista Obrera'.Rouquié, Alain/Arnaud, Hélène. Les Forces politiques en Amérique centrale. KARTHALA Editions, 1991. p. 39-40
In the mid-1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 300.Benjamin, Roger W.; Kautsky, John H.. Communism and Economic Development, in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 62, No. 1. (Mar. 1968), pp. 122.
In 1970, the party again could contest elections.
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.
On April 29, 2012, VP held a constitutive assembly for the electoral registration that would allow them to participate as a national party in the 2014 elections, which finally did not happen. At the meeting, María Isabel Fallas was elected president of the provisional executive committee. Subsequently, Trino Barrantes Araya would assume that position. In the XVI International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, from November 13 to 15, 2014, the Partido Vanguardia Popular was represented by Luis Salas Sarkis and Sonia Zamora.
The party was unable to finish the process of re-inscription that all parties need to do four-yearly and was declared cancelled by the Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica, different attempts to re-found it had been unsuccessful.
Electoral performance Presidential ElectionLeaderFirst roundCoalitionVotes%PositionResult 1936 Manuel Mora Valverde 4,594 5.3% 3/3 - 1940 Manuel Mora Valverde 10,825 9.8% 2/3 - 1944 Teodoro Picado Michalski 52,830 75.1% 1/2 Victory Bloc 1948 Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia 44,438 44.7% 2/2 Victory Bloc 1953 Banned 1958 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz 22,740 2.7% 3/8 United People 1982 Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz 32,186 3.3% 4/6 United People 1986 Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz 9,099 0.8% 3/6 Peoples' Alliance 1990 Víctor Daniel Camacho Monge 9,217 0.7% 3/7 United People 1994 Did not participate 1998 Norma Vargas Duarte 3,075 0.2% 10/12 United People 2002 Walter Coto Molina 3,970 0.2% 8/13 Change 2000 2006 Humberto Vargas Carbonell 2,291 0.1% 13/14 United Left 2010 Did not participate 2014201820222026
See also :Category:People's Vanguard Party (Costa Rica) politicians Manuel Mora Joaquín Gutiérrez
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