Costa Rica's liberal hegemony gives little space…
November 1889 CE
Both the conservatives and the more left-leaning groups are excluded from power by the use of questionable methods, and authoritarian governments and factional fighting among the liberals are common.
For example, the 1889 Costa Rican general election sees fights between the Catholic Church supporting candidate José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón against liberal Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra, with the government of president Bernardo Soto Alfaro openly supporting Esquivel and almost rejecting Zeledón's victory until popular unrest changes his mind and causes his resignation.
The election, held between October 7, 1889 (first degree) and December 1, 1889 (second degree), is particularly notorious for been the first time in Costa Rica's history that political parties take part in an election.
The date of November 7 is still commemorated in Costa Rica as "Democracy's Day" due to the outcome of the liberal government accepting the results of the conservative opposition, as to this point, authoritarian governments had been the norm.
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