Margarita Bolaños
Margarita Bolaños Arquín | |
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| President of the Citizens' Action Party | |
| In office 3 March 2014 – 2 September 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Rodrigo Alberto Carazo Zeledón |
| Succeeded by | Marcia González Aguiluz |
| Secretary General of the Citizens' Action Party | |
| In office 1 May 2002 – 28 March 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Olga Marta Sánchez Oviedo |
| Succeeded by | Gabriela Saborío |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1953 (age 71–72) |
| Nationality | Costa Rican |
| Political party | Citizens' Action Party |
| Residence(s) | Oreamuno, Cartago, Costa Rica |
| Alma mater | University of Costa Rica |
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Margarita Bolaños Arquín (born 1953) is a Costa Rican politician and anthropologist who acted as the president of the Citizens' Action Party.[1]
Bolaños studied anthropology at the University of Costa Rica, and received an MS at the University of Kansas in 1999. She was a researcher and professor at the University of Chile and the University of Costa Rica. She was elected the secretary general of the Citizens' Action Party in 2009, which she served as under the then President of the Citizens' Action Party, Elizabeth Fonseca Corrales, until 2013. She was elected the president of the National Executive Committee of the party on 17 March 2015.[2]
References
- ^ Sequeira, Aarón (14 March 2015). "Margarita Bolaños es la nueva presidenta del PAC". La Nación (in Spanish). Grupo Nación.
- ^ Sequeira, Aarón (15 March 2015). "PAC elige presidenta gobiernista y quita vicepresidenta polémica". La Nación (in Spanish). Grupo Nación.