Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leader of the Opposition (Costa Rica)


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 22:27, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Leader of the Opposition (Costa Rica)

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Term is not in use in Costa Rican politics, which is a extensive multi party system, so no single party/person could be denominated as a 'leader of the opposition', also, this list is a compilation of runner-ups/second places in elections, some of which had political power, but definitely not all of them. Roqz (talk) 19:41, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Some notes about the cited references: states that in the 2014 elections, the runner-up party self proclaims their candidate Araya as 'leader of the opposition', however in the next reference  the same party spokesperson states that Araya is too politically weak to be an opposition leader; therefore refs contradicts that any runner up of a presidential election is automatically an opposition leader as the article implies. Then, in the book at the lawmaker Daniel Oduber is named by the author as the leader of the opposition, but then, in that legislative period (1958-62) in the article we have the runner up for president, José Orlich as the leader!, Similarly it happens with  that states that Otilio Ulate was the opposition leader, who again doesn't appear in the list of the article. Seems to me that the refs were cherry picked as just search results to support the use of the term, which in Spanish Wikipedia seems to have arised as a retcon after the 2014 source (first above) to try to apply to the rest of the candidates and elections, and then propagated here.

Granted, the term has been used in the past such as in those books as a figure of speech, for political adversaries of the executive power (which is important and should be added to each individual's article), but just sparingly and not automatically applied to the runner up of the presidential elections as this article states, which looks to me as WP:OR. In Spanish Wikipedia the article was already deleted, and in the discussion only two editors participated (full disclosure, myself included) agreeing on the misuse of the term in Wikipedia. --Roqz (talk) 23:36, 11 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:58, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Costa Rica-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:58, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Certainly the term is used as an informal title, but is there significant coverage about this informal position? Beyond media reports and books just naming individuals as having this title, I cannot find any sort of coverage about the role and how it fist in politics in Costa Rica.  To be fair, I can only search in English, and there may be Spanish language sources.  However, none of the sourcing in the article is really of a passing mention. -- Whpq (talk) 00:26, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. I stand by the reasoning of the nominator, incidentally the same as over at Articles for deletion/Leader of the Opposition (Norway). Oppositions are often multi-faceted, and at the same time it is possible to have a communist opposition, a centre-right or centre-left opposition, a far right opposition, etc. Geschichte (talk) 10:49, 18 December 2021 (UTC)


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