Monday, May 1 marks International Workers' Day, known also known as Labor Day.

It has its origins in 1889, when socialist groups and trade unions in the U.S. designated May 1 as a day to honor workers. 

This observance is in commemoration of the Haymarket Riots in Chicago, U.S.A., in 1886 when a worker's protest rally turned violent after someone threw a bomb at the police.

The event also commemorates the day Congress chose its President. This year, with 38 votes, the National Liberation Party's Rodrigo Arias-Sánchez was chosen president of the legislature for the third time in a row.

Arias will continue to serve as president of Congress, having been elected for the first time in 2022.  He will hold the position of Congress President for a term of one year.

The Legislative Assembly is composed of 57 deputies who are elected by direct, universal, popular vote on a closed party-list proportional representation basis by provinces for four-year terms. They were elected in the National General President Elections held in February 2022.

In April 2022, the Elections Supreme Tribunal delivered official credentials to the 57 elected deputies, who are making up Congress from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026.

The tribunal is an independent public organization in charge of developing and monitoring the presidential election process in the country.

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