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Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz
Costa Rican singer and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fabricio Gerardo Alvarado Muñoz (born 30 May 1974) is a Costa Rican politician, singer and undergraduate journalist. He 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.
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Early life
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]
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Political career
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] According to the BBC, his campaign gained in popularity because of his opposition to 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]
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Electoral performance
Presidential
Personal life
Alvarado Muñoz is a devout Evangelical Christian.[10][11]
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