Costa Rican People's Party (in Spanish: Partido del Pueblo Costarricense, abbreviated as PPC) is a communist party in Costa Rica. PPC was founded in April 1985 by a faction of the Popular Vanguard Party that had split in March 1984. Its founder was Eduardo Mora Valverde.
Its current leader is Pablo Morales Rivera.
PPC publishes Libertad.
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