Political Leaders: Costa Rica

Leaders of Costa Rica
(Republic of Costa Rica)

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Look for biographies of the leaders (in Spanish) at CIDOB website.

Parties: PAC: Citizens' Action Party - PLN: National Liberation Party - PRD: Party of the Democratic Renewal - PRN: National Republican Party - PSD: Social Democratic Progress Party - PUN: National Unification Party - PUSC: Social Christian Unity Party

Heads of State

Presidents of the Republic
Teodoro Picado Michalski          8 May 1944 - 20 Apr 1948 (†1960) PRN
Santos León Herrera              20 Apr 1948 -  8 May 1948 (†1950) PRN (acting)

President of the Founding Junta of the Second Republic
José María Figueres Ferrer        8 May 1948 -  8 Nov 1949 (†1990) 

Presidents of the Republic
Luis Otilio Ulate Blanco          8 Nov 1949 -  8 Nov 1953 (†1973) PUN
José María Figueres Ferrer        8 Nov 1953 -  8 May 1958 (†1990) PLN
Mario José Echandi Jiménez        8 May 1958 -  8 May 1962 (†2011) PUN
Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich  8 May 1962 -  8 May 1966 (†1969) PLN
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández     8 May 1966 -  8 May 1970 (†2010) PUN
José María Figueres Ferrer        8 May 1970 -  8 May 1974 (†1990) PLN
Daniel Oduber Quirós              8 May 1974 -  8 May 1978 (†1991) PLN
Rodrigo José Carazo Odio          8 May 1978 -  8 May 1982 (†2009) PRD
Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez        8 May 1982 -  8 May 1986 (†2016) PLN
Óscar Rafael Arias Sánchez        8 May 1986 -  8 May 1990         PLN
Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier    8 May 1990 -  8 May 1994         PUSC 
José María Figueres Olsen         8 May 1994 -  8 May 1998         PLN
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría 8 May 1998 -  8 May 2002         PUSC
Abel Pacheco de la Espriella      8 May 2002 -  8 May 2006         PUSC 
Óscar Rafael Arias Sánchez        8 May 2006 -  8 May 2010         PLN
Laura Chinchilla Miranda          8 May 2010 -  8 May 2014         PLN  
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera       8 May 2014 -  8 May 2018         PAC
Carlos Alvarado Quesada           8 May 2018 -  8 May 2022         PAC
Rodrigo Alberto Chaves Robles     8 May 2022 -                     PSD

First Vice Presidents of the Republic

Alberto Oreamuno Flores             1949-1953 (†1980) PUN
Raúl Blanco Cervantes               1953-1958 (†1979) PLN
Abelardo Bonilla Baldares           1958-1962 (†1969) PUN
Raúl Blanco Cervantes               1962-1966 (†1979) PLN
Jorge Vega Rodríguez                1966-1970 (†2001) PUN
Manuel Aguilar Bonilla              1970-1974 (†2011) PLN
Carlos Manuel Castillo Morales      1974-1978 (†1999) PLN
Rodrigo Altmann Ortiz               1978-1982 (†2013)   
Alberto Fait Lizano                 1982-1986 (†1997) PLN    
Jorge Manuel Dengo Obregón          1986-1990 (†2012) PLN
Germán Serrano Pinto                1990-1994 (†2016) PUSC
Rodrigo Oreamuno Blanco             1994-1998         PLN
Astrid Fischel Volio                1998-2002         PUSC
María Lineth Saborío Chaverri       2002-2006         PUSC
Laura Chinchilla Miranda            2006-2008         PLN
Francisco Antonio Pacheco Fernández 2008-2010         PLN (acting
Alfio Piva Mesén                    2010-2014         PLN
Helio Fallas Venegas                2014-2018         PUSC, PAC
Epsy Alejandra Campbell Barr        2018-2022         PAC
Stephan Lars Andreas Brunner Neibig 2022-             PSD

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