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as the existence of the Chamber did not last that long). The Senate had precedence over the Chamber of Deputies and in fact the Constitution established that in case someone was elected deputy and senator should choose to be a senator and while a senator could be a deputy, a deputy could not be a senator.
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The Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica is a unicameral body of 57 deputies whose number is constitutionally fixed and who are elected in closed lists postulated by the political parties by reason of a proportional system. Different experts have recommended the increase in the number of deputies as an
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Most of these proposals also include the switch to direct vote and not by closed lists as it is currently. In the case of the "German model" proposed by Gonzalez, the country would be divided into 72 electoral circuits by 59,700 inhabitants and deputies would be elected in two lists, 72 elected by a
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or an annual income of not less than one thousand. In addition, the President or Vice-Presidents, ministers, magistrates or local authorities could not be deputies. The term lasted six years with indefinite re-election and half of the Chamber had to be renewed each three years (which didn't occurred
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The Constitution of 1844 established a House of Senators of five senators and their alternates who was renewed by thirds on an annual basis with the possibility of re-election. In the 1859 senators were ten per province that could be re-elected indefinitely and that was renewed every two years. This
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The Constitution of 1859 again reintroduces the bicameral congress with a House of Representatives and another of Senators whose powers are described in Article 90. The Constitution of 1869 maintains the figure of the House of Representatives separated from the Senate in its Article 88. It would be
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According to Eduardo Oconitrillo García, once the Constitutional Assembly of 1917 was over, and since the senatorial and diputadile elections that were planned for 1919 had not yet taken place, the constituent deputies were divided in such a way that the 14 oldest ones provisionally established the
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Only the Constitution of 1917 posed the right to naturalized Costa Ricans to be senators, the others required to be Costa Rican by birth. In all, it was a requirement to be over 44 years old, except in 1844, the requirement was to be older than 35. All demanded belonging to the secular state (not
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is enacted, in place up to this date. In this constitution the unicameral system of 1871 is maintained and the number of deputies is fixed at 45, with the provision that when the population exceeds 1,350,000 inhabitants, a new deputy would be elected for every 30,000 or rest. It was also arranged
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The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Central America was issued in Guatemala on November 22, 1824, but it was in force in Costa Rica until mid-January 1825 and was disregarded when a Constituent Assembly was established on November 14, 1838. It maintains the bicameral system, in which the
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during her tenure recommended to increase the seats to between 75 and 85. The Citizen Power Now Movement on the other hand proposes to increase it to 84 and drastically reduce the number of legislative advisors (currently 12) to avoid a very large increase in expenses. The proposal of the book
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where 42 deputies would be elected, one from each of 42 electoral districts created for that purpose, and the other 42 would be chosen proportionally according to the party's vote and could be reelected consecutively, a maximum of three periods (currently the Costa Rican deputies can not be
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of Puntarenas (which was not yet a province). The longest term of senatorial office was in the 1917 Constitution being of six years, renewing half each three years. One senator was chosen for every three provincial deputies whose number was proportional to the population of the province.
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The House was made up of deputies of popular election elected by each province at the rate of a tenure deputy for every fifteen thousand inhabitants or by fraction greater than seven thousand five hundred, plus one deputy for each three tenure and one senator for every three deputies.
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The Political Constitution of 1844 is issued on April 9, 1844, and ends with the coup d'état of June 7, 1846. This constitution establishes a bicameral system with reciprocal initiative and sanction, a chamber composed of elected representatives directly and a
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The requirements to be a deputy included being a Costa Rican by birth or by naturalization with more than ten years of being nationalized, being over 25 years old, being able to read and write and owning properties with a value of not less than three thousand
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made). This law establishes a "Supreme State Power", headed by an unmovable Head, assisted by a Consultative Council and a Judicial Council. The Consultative Council is presided over naturally by the Head and knows only of the matters that it convokes.
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and it establishes that it is up to them to propose and decree laws in conjunction with the Monarch, as well as to interpret and repeal them if necessary. It applied to Costa Rica between its decree on March 19, 1812, and the return to the throne of
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The Chamber of Deputies of Costa Rica was the lower chamber of the Legislative branch prescribed by the Constitution of 1917. The existence of the same lasted only two years since that constituent body was abolished after the overthrow of
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in mid-1814. It was again inforced from the first months of 1820 to December 1, 1821. Some parts of its text was incorporated in the first constitutions of independent Costa Rica. One deputy was elected for every 70,000 inhabitants in a
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made recommendations for more than 100 countries and recommended that the Costa Rican parliament should have 115 deputies according to its population (in 1999), the Board of Notables for the Reform of the State summoned by President
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re-elected consecutively, but they have no limits to be re-elected alternately). When the Constitution of Costa Rica was drafted of 1949, 57 deputies was one for every 14000 inhabitants, currently it is one for every 80,000.
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that every three deputies would choose an alternate. Subsequently, by means of Law N ° 2741 of May 12, 1961, the constitutional text was amended to leave the number of deputies fixed at 57 and eliminates the alternates.
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single-member district where one deputy is elected directly by each district, and 71 elected by a proportional constituency where they would be proportionally distributed according to the votes received per game.
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of the Costa Rican Legislative branch as prescribed in the constitutions of 1844, 1859, 1869 and 1917. During all these different constitutions, the Senate had different characteristics and conformations.
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and that the president can dissolve Parliament and hold elections. However is not currently under discussion. The switch to this system has also been endorsed by the deputy and former president of the
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for which they received immunity except for fragrant criminal acts, although the degree of immunity varied from a constitution to another from full to only civil and during the time of sessions. This
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Throughout the history of Costa Rica, the first interim governors (1821-1825) had legislative faculties and they had or were attributed by other provisional or de facto governments:
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was issued, which governs from March 8, 1841, to June 6, 1842 (although it was already de facto suspended since the fall of Carrillo on April 12, 1842, after the coup d'état that
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Congress approves the laws and a Senate only sanctions them, without legislative initiative capacity. The way of choosing representation of both chambers is maintained.
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of 1844 expressly prescribes a Congress conformed by a Chamber of Representatives and a Chamber of Senators. This would be abolished in the Constitution of 1847.
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urgent need to improve representativeness, but this proposal is highly unpopular among the population and generates reactions of rejection. A report of the
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model was very similar to the Senate of the 1869 Constitution which established 11 senators by province elected for three years and one elected by the
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and a Senate, both of popular election. Each province elected one deputy for every 20,000 inhabitants and three tenure senators and one alternate.
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governs from January 21, 1847, and is replaced in part in 1848. The Legislative branch resides in a Congress composed of 10 deputies and the
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This was suggested again by the Commission of Notables for the Reform of the State convened by Laura Chinchilla, and to which belonged the
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by lawyer Diego González suggests increasing the number to 143, making use, as the title indicates, of an electoral system similar to the
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The powers of the Senate varied from one constitution to another, but in the majority it had pre-eminence over the
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in 1821, the Interim Fundamental Social Pact of the Province of Costa Rica was enacted, also known as the
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is issued in San José on January 21, 1825. It was in force until May 27, 1828, with the coup d'état of
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in 1919 and the Constitution was re-established back to 1871 that established a unicameral Congress.
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and came into force once again until May 8, 1948. It established the power to legislate in the
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alleged that he was on his farm. It established a bicameral legislative branch, based on a
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abolished in the Constitution of 1871 in which the Parliament returns to be unicameral.
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was issued and sanctioned on December 7, 1871. It was without effect on September 11,
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Pedro Muñoz, the conservative deputy Mario Redondo, and the historic leader of the
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One of the first to propose it over the year 2001 was the then President
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Aplicación del modelo alemán a la elección de diputados en Costa Rica
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The Costa Rican National Palace, the see of most of its legislatures.
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is long and starts from even before its formal independence from the
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The ex-deputy, former minister and former presidential candidate
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recommended to increase the number of legislators to 82. the
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and the Center of Investigation and Political Studies of the
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The proposal of Citizen Power Now is similar, proposes a
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was promulgated, the power to create laws resided in the
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of not less than 5 members, also elected by suffrage.
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Second Political Statute of the Province of Costa Rica
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During the government of Braulio Carrillo Colina the
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Index

Politics of Costa Rica

Constitution
Abortion law
LGBT rights
President
list
Rodrigo Chaves Robles
Vice Presidents
Stephan Brunner
Mary Munive
Legislative Assembly
History
President
Rodrigo Arias Sánchez
Supreme Court of Justice
President
Fernando Cruz Castro
Administrative divisions
Provinces and comarcas
Cantons
Districts
Local government
Indigenous territories
Elections
2014
2018
2022
2007 CAFTA referendum
Political parties

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