Figuerism

[1] Figueres is remembered for, among other things, having respected the "Social Guarantees" (a series of social reforms beneficial to the popular classes enacted in the Calderón administration that were not repealed by Figueres after winning the war), for having abolished the army, approved women's suffrage, ended racial segregation (until 1949 blacks had no right to vote or leave certain areas) and the creation of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity.

[4] The Center was fed back from the social democratic thought of the time, particularly of Haya de la Torre.

Figuerismo is not synonymous with liberationism, that is, the ideology that revolves around the National Liberation Party which has a varied archipelago of internal tendencies.

PLN's main rival, the Citizens' Action Party was founded by different personalities largely from the PLN, PAC has/had among its members personalities close to the figure, as one of its founders was writer Alberto Cañas Escalante who was close to Figueres Ferrer and former first lady Josette Altmann Borbón who was his daughter-in-law and wife of Figueres Olsen.

Another figuerista is President Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera who left the PLN for the PAC following the disagreement with the support of the party to CAFTA.