On 21 June 2021, Cartago mayor, Mario Redondo Poveda, and former Deputy Minister of Transportation, Eliécer Feinzaig Mintz, both presidents respectively of the Christian Democratic Alliance and Liberal Progressive Party announced the "Coalition for Change".[51] This would be the first coalition of right-wing parties to participate in a presidential election since the Unity Coalition in 1978, and the first overall since United Left in 2006.[52][53][54]