National Encounter: Former deputy Óscar Campos, organizer of blockades and protests against the government in 2018, founded this party.[31][32] National Restoration: This party, that held an important role in the last election, nominated the former president of the Legislative Assembly, Eduardo Cruickshank.[33] New Generation Party: Sergio Mena Díaz would be repeating for the third time the presidential candidacy with a double nomination for deputy also for the third time for New Generation.[33] New Republic: Fabricio Alvarado, who was the first place of the first round and runner-up of the previous election, announced his separation from the party for which he was a deputy and candidate, and create the New Republic Party, although he assures that this would be a secular and non-Christian party unlike its predecessor.[34] Our People: The former Minister of the Presidency of Costa Rica and former candidate (twice) of the Social Christian Unity Party Rodolfo Piza Rocafort announced that he would be participating but this time for the Our People Party, a provincial party in the process of being constituted on a national scale.[35][36][37][38][39] Our People Party was a provincial political party founded mostly by former Social Christian Unity Party members and converted to the national level.[40] Social Christian Republican Party: The party considered the former minister Rodrigo Chaves as presidential candidate[41] and also former President Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier was asked to run, but he declined, arguing for health reasons.[42] Nomination finally went to three-time candidate Rodolfo Hernández who was also a candidate in 2014 and 2018.