BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.

Costa Rica is governed by the constitution of November 7, 1949, which established a presidential system and a unitary state.

-Executive:

President and Head of Government is the representative of Costa Rica at the Home and Foreign, is responsible for ensuring compliance with laws, is elected by direct popular vote, secret and universal for a period of 4 years from their faculties is the Appointment Presidents of the autonomous institutions, Appointment and Dismissal of Ministers and Diplomats Rican, veto laws, decrees sign, Pardon of Punishment, national holiday or Mourning and Bereavement. The current presidency is occupied by Laura Chinchilla Miranda (from the May 8, 2010)

First Vice President: Alfio Piva Mesen (from the May 8, 2010)

Second Vice President: Luis Liberman Ginsburg (from the May 8, 2010).

-Cabinet:

is composed of ministers and diplomats elected president, once a week, ministers and diplomats meet with the Presidency and the Media in an act called the Governing Council, whose goal is to keep citizens informed about problems and events of national importance and the actions the government done to solve them.

-Legislature:

Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly is a unicameral body with 57 Councils responsible for approving, amending or repealing laws and decrees. Legislators are elected by direct popular vote, secret and universal for a period of 4 years and have provincial character. Features include The Appointment of Judges of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, appoint legislative committees charged with studying the draft law, every November to approve the budget of the Republic, Diplomatic Immunity Lift members of the supreme powers, Reforming the Constitution, approve or reject international treaties and conventions and to call public officials or citizens to be accountable in cases that warrant. The legislative chairman will assume the presidency of the Republic in the absence of the President and his deputies. Its current president is Juan Carlos Mendoza Garcia, Citizen Action Party Legislator of the Province of San Jose. Comptroller General of the Republic: It is the constitutional body, auxiliary Legislature that audits the use of public funds to improve the management of public finances and contribute to political control and citizen. The current Comptroller is Generl Lic. Rocío Aguilar Montoya and the current is Subcontralora Lic. Marta Acosta Zúñiga.

-Ombudsman:

It is an auditing body that is part of the legislature. The purpose of this institution is to ensure that public sector activity meets the legal and moral, so that the rights and interests of the people of Costa Rica is always protected. The current Defender of the People's Ophelia Taitelbaum Yoselevick Deputy Ombudsman and is Luis Fallas Acosta.

-Judiciary:

Supreme Court, is the body that administers justice, composed of 22 judges for the Chambers I, II, III and constitutional, are elected by the Legislature for a period of 8 years. Its current president is the Supreme Judge Luis Paulino Mora Mora.

-Judges:

All those administrators of Justice for courts and tribunals established by law, are elected by the Supreme Court for a period of 8 years.

-Electoral power:

The buildings of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Costa Rica and the Civil Registry in Barrio Aranjuez, San Jose. Front: The Pillars of Democracy Monument to Suffrage.

Supreme Electoral Tribunal Electoral body is composed of 5 judges elected by the Legislature for a period of 6 years, are responsible for ensuring the preparation and transparency of National and Municipal Elections in addition to the Plesbicitos and Referendums or referenda, plenipotente also have the power to call early elections, suspend and diplomatic immunity to members of the Supreme Powers, cancel the credentials of Representatives, Mayors, Judges and Ministers and Disable persons holding public office. Its current president is Luis Antonio Sobrado Altiquísimo Judge Gonzalez.

Supreme Electoral Tribunal.