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President Dr. Walter Muñoz Cespedes Secretary-General Heiner Alberto Lemaitre Zamora Treasurer Vernor Juan Mesén Jiménez First vicepresident Claribel Melendez Magaña Second vicepresident Elizabeth Aguilar Quesada Founded January 30, 1996 (1996-01-30) | ||
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 times presidential candidate, normally with testimonial results surrounding 1% or less of the votes.
The party first contested general elections in 1998, in which it won a single seat, 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. 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. The party has no deputies or mayors though it does have municipal councilors, syndics, district councilors and one Intendant.