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Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz

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Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz
Official portrait, 2022
President of the New Republic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 May 2023
Preceded byJuan Diego López Quirós
Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
In office
1 May 2022 – 30 April 2026
Preceded byWalter Muñoz Céspedes
Succeeded byAntonio Trejos Mazariegos
ConstituencySan José (16th Office)
In office
1 May 2014 – 1 January 2017
Preceded byJosé María Villalta Flórez-Estrada
Succeeded byAlexandra Loría Beeche
ConstituencySan José (18th Office)
General Secretary of the New Republic Party
In office
30 January 2019 – 24 May 2023
Preceded byParty established
Succeeded byMónica Catalán Marín
Personal details
BornGerardo Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz
(1974-05-30) 30 May 1974 (age 52)
San José, Costa Rica
PartyNew Republic Party (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations
National Restoration Party (2005–2018)
WebsiteCampaign website

Gerardo Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz (born 30 May 1974) is a Costa Rican politician, singer and undergraduate journalist who served as a Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica representing the San José Province for the National Restoration Party from 2014 to 2017. He then founded his own party, the New Republic Party, in 2019 and became a deputy of the legislative assembly again in 2022.

Early life

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Alvarado was born on 30 May 1974 in San José, Costa Rica.[1] He is the son of Gerardo Alvarado Garita and Dulce María Muñoz Gamboa.[2] His father, Gerardo, was a singer of the Taboga Band, and he is also the cousin of Luis Alonso Naranjo, who is a vocalist for the band ESCATS.[2] He did his secondary studies at the Liceo de San Miguel in Desamparados before studying collective communication sciences at the University of Costa Rica, but eventually dropped out.[2] He then worked as a journalist on Channel 4 and later Repretel, reporting on the news programs NC4 and Hechos.[2] During this time, he also began to do music, recording Christian music albums.[2] In 2009, he moved to the La Uruca channel and worked as a news anchor on Mundo Cristiano and was on a radio program called Metamorfosis.[2]

Political career

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He was once a deputy in the Legislative Assembly, representing the San José Province. He is also a musician, having released a number of songs in the Christian genre.[3] A member of the conservative National Restoration Party (and its only lawmaker for the 2014–2018 period) he was also the party's presidential nominee for the 2018 general election, ultimately losing to Carlos Alvarado Quesada.[4][5] His campaign gained popularity because of his opposition to an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that required legal recognition of same-sex marriage.[6]

On 23 October 2018 Alvarado announced his resignation to National Restoration Party and the start of a new party named New Republic.[7] His campaign is under investigation by the Ministerio Público after the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones reported that it had found three providers of services on the elections that had been paid by cash, something that is illegal in Costa Rica.[8]

Alvarado signed the Madrid Charter, a document drafted by the far-right Spanish party Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of Ibero-America involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime".[9]

Fabricio Alvarado pledged not to raise taxes if elected president.[10]

Electoral performance

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Presidential

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Election Candidate First round Second round
Votes % Position Result Votes % Position Result
2018 505,214 24.91% Increase 1/ – 822,997 39.21% 2 Lost
2022 311,633 14.88% Decrease 3/ Lost

Personal life

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Alvarado Muñoz is a devout Evangelical Christian.[11][12]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Gerardo Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz". www.asamblea.go.cr. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Fabricio Alvarado: la fe de la mano de la política". La Nación (in Spanish). 31 January 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
  3. ↑ "Periodista y cantante cristiano, Fabricio Alvarado, es candidato a diputado" [Christian journalist and singer, Fabricio Alvarado, is a candidate for congress] (in Spanish). CRHoy. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Ojo al Voto. "Gerardo Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz". Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  5. ↑ Cubero, Alexandra (17 January 2018). "Fabricio Alvarado se suma entre los cinco favoritos" [Fabricio Alvarado joins the top five favorites]. La República (in Spanish). San José, Costa Rica. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  6. ↑ "Costa Rica election: Gay marriage debate dominates campaign". BBC News. 4 February 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Madrigal, Luis. "Fabricio Alvarado renuncia a Restauración Nacional: S'u cúpula me vio como una amenaza'" [Fabricio Alvarado resigns from National Restoration: His leadership saw me as a threat']. Delfino (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "Dinero en efectivo llegaba en 'bolsas' a sede de campaña de Fabricio Alvarado" [Cash arrived in 'bags' at Fabricio Alvarado's campaign headquarters]. 13 March 2019.
  9. ↑ "Carta de Madrid". Fundación Disenso (in Spanish). 26 October 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  10. ↑ "Fabricio Alvarado se compromete a no impulsar impuestos en su Gobierno". Partido Nueva República (in Spanish). 10 December 2025. Retrieved 16 January 2026.
  11. ↑ Ávila, Laura (4 January 2018). "Fabricio Alvarado, el aspirante evangélico que pasó a liderar encuestas tras el fallo de la Corte IDH" (in Spanish). El Financiero. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  12. ↑ Pérez González, Karla (4 January 2018). "Un cantante evangélico quiere gobernar en Costa Rica" (in Spanish). Diario de Cuba. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
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