Broad Front (Costa Rica)

The Broad Front (Frente Amplio) is a social-democrat political party in Costa Rica, the main component of the front is the Alternative of the Lefts Movement (Movimiento Alternativa de Izquierdas). They're defined by progressive, socialist, "green", justice, human rights and democratic ideas. In the 2006 general elections, they won 1.1% of the legislative votes, and won one seat in the legislature, occupied by José Merino Del Rio. In the 2010 general elections they kept their seat, now occupied by José María Villalta Florez-Estrada. Their Presidential Candidate was Eugenio Trejos Benavides.