Social Democratic Progress Party

The Social Democratic Progress Party (, PPSD or PSD) is a Costa Rican political party founded in 2018 and led by Rodrigo Chaves Robles and Pilar Cisneros Gallo. Background The party was created in 2018 by their founder Luz Mary Alpízar Loaiza, formerly part of New Generation Party. For the 2022 general elections, the party served as the electoral vehicle for the presidential ambitions of Rodrigo Chaves Robles, a recognized economist who worked at the World Bank and who was later called to be Minister of Finance in 2019. His stay as Finance Minister only lasted about a year as a result of irreconcilable conflicts with the then-president Carlos Alvarado Quesada. After this, he had very harsh criticisms of the government's management. In this way, he became a political figure representing those discontented with the PAC government. He has also been supported by the renowned journalist and political activist Pilar Cisneros Gallo, a critic of corruption and political scandals of different governments throughout the years that she worked in Channel 7 and La Nación, which would end up nominated by this party as deputy for San José.