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President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
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Incumbent Rodrigo Arias Sánchez since 1 May 2022
Term length	One year
Inaugural holder	Manuel Aguilar Chacón
Formation	1824

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The president of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica is the presiding officer of that legislature.

President			Tenure	Party
Federal Republic of Central America
		Manuel Aguilar Chacón	1824 November – 1825 January
		Agustín Gutiérrez y Lizaurzábal	1824 September – November
		Cecilio Umaña Fallas	1825 April – May
		Manuel Alvarado Hidalgo	1825 January – February
		Manuel Alvarado Alvarado	1825 February – April
		Pedro Zeledón Mora	1825 June – November
		Félix Romero Castro	1825 November – December
		José María Arias Zamora	1826 January – February
		Joaquín Rivas Ramírez	1826 March – May
		Francisco Javier Alfaro Zamora	1826 May – August
		José Antonio Castro Ramírez	1827 May – June
		Braulio Carrillo Colina	1828 March
		José Joaquín Flores Pérez	1828 September
		Manuel María Peralta del Corral	1829 November – 1830 February
		Luciano Alfaro Arias	1830 May – June
		José María Esquivel Azofeifa	1830 May – June
		Rafael Francisco Osejo	1831 January – April
		José Gabriel Campo Guerrero	1831 July – August
		José Nereo Fonseca González	1831 May – June
		José Francisco Peralta del Corral	1832 setiembre – December
		José Andrés Rivera	1834 March – April
		Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava	1836 August – December
		Francisco Javier Sáenz Ulloa	1836 January – February
		Miguel Alfaro Saborío	1837 January – February
		José Julián Blanco Zamora	1837 March – April
		Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla	1837 March – April
		Félix Sancho Alvarado	1837 September – 1838 May
Free State of Costa Rica
		Juan Mora Fernández	1843 August – December
		Juan de los Santos Madriz Cervantes	1843 June – August
		Félix Sancho Alvarado	1844 January – May
		Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo	1844 July – November
		José María Castro Madriz	1845 November 1844 – December
		Juan Rafael Reyes Frutos	1846 December – 1846 February
		Manuel José Carazo Bonilla	1846 March – June
		Nazario Toledo	1846 September – 1847 May
		José María Alfaro Zamora	1847 May – September
First Costa Rican Republic
		Juan Rafael Mora Porras	1847 November – 1848 June
		Manuel José Carazo Bonilla	1848 September – 1849 December
		Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla	1850 January – 1856 May
		Rafael García-Escalante Nava	1857 October – 1858 August
		José María Castro Madriz	1859 October – December
		Julián Volio Llorente	1860 – 1863
		Manuel José Carazo Bonilla	1860 – 1861
		Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo	1861 – 1862
		Manuel José Carazo Bonilla	1862 – 1863
		Napoleón Escalante Navas	1863 May – August
		Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo	1863 May – August
		Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Rosales	1864 – 1867
		Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1864 – 1865
		José María Montealegre Fernández	1867 – 1868
		Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1867 – 1868
		Juan José Ulloa Solares	1869 January – February
		Francisco Echeverría Alvarado	1869 May – 1870 April
		Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava	1869 – 1876
		Víctor Guardia Gutiérrez	1882 – 1883
		Juan Manuel Carazo Peralta	1883 – 1886
		Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz	1886 – 1889
		Manuel Aragón Quesada	1889 – 1890
		Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1890 – 1892
		Carlos Durán Cartín	1892
		Pedro María León-Páez y Brown	1894 – 1900
		Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1900 – 1903
		Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno	1900 – 1903
		Mauro Fernández Acuña	1904 – 1905
		Federico Tinoco Iglesias	1905 – 1908
		Juan Bautista Quirós Segura	1905 – 1908
		Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno	1909 – 1910
		Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias	1910 – 1913
		Máximo Fernández Alvarado	1913 – 1914
		Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas	1914 – 1916
		Máximo Fernández Alvarado	1916 – 1917
		Daniel Núñez Gutiérrez	1917 – 1918
		Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas	1917 April – June	Peliquista Party
		José Astúa Aguilar	1917 – 1918	Peliquista Party
		Rafael Calderón Muñoz	1917 – 1918	Peliquista Party
		Francisco Faerron Suárez	1918 – 1919	Peliquista Party
		José Astúa Aguilar	1919	Peliquista Party
		Arturo Volio Jiménez	1920 – 1925	Republican Party
		León Cortés Castro	1925 – 1926	Republican Party
		Arturo Volio Jiménez	1926 – 1929	Republican Party
		Alejandro Alvarado Quirós	1929 – 1930	Republican Party
		Oscar Rohrmoser Carranza	1929 – 1930	Republican Party
		Rafael Calderón Muñoz	1931 – 1932	National Republican Party
		Arturo Volio Jiménez	1932 – 1935	National Republican Party
		Ricardo Castro Beeche	1935 – 1936	National Republican Party
		Juan Rafael Arias Bonilla	1936 – 1938	National Republican Party
		Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia	1938 – 1940	National Republican Party
		Otto Cortés Fernández	1940 – 1941	Democratic Party
		Teodoro Picado Michalski	1941 – 1944	National Republican Party
		José Albertazzi Avendaño	1944 – 1945	National Republican Party
		Rafael Ángel Grillo Ocampo	1944 – 1945	National Republican Party
		Francisco Fonseca Chamier	1946 – 1948	National Republican Party
Second Costa Rican Republic
		Marcial Rodríguez Conejo	1949 – 1952	National Union Party
		Abelardo Bonilla Baldares	1952 – 1953	National Union Party
		Gonzalo Facio Segreda	1953 – 1956	National Liberation Party
		Otto Cortés Fernández	1956 – 1958	National Liberation Party
		Álvaro Montero Padilla	1958 – 1960	National Union Party
		Fernando Lara Bustamante	1960 – 1961	National Union Party
		Mario Leiva Quirós	1961 – 1962	National Union Party
		Carlos Espinach Escalante	1962 – 1963	National Liberation Party
		Rafael París Steffens	1963 – 1964	National Liberation Party
		Rodolfo Solano Orfila	1964 – 1965	National Liberation Party
		Rafael París Steffens	1965 – 1966	National Liberation Party
		Rodrigo Carazo Odio	1966 – 1967	National Liberation Party
		Hernán Garrón Salazar	1967 – 1968	National Liberation Party
		Fernando Volio Jiménez	1968 – 1969	National Liberation Party
		José Luis Molina Quesada	1969 – 1970	National Liberation Party
		Daniel Oduber Quirós	1970 – 1973	National Liberation Party
		Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez	1973 – 1974	National Liberation Party
		Alfonso Carro Zúñiga	1974 – 1977	National Liberation Party
		Elías Soley Soler	1977 – 1978	National Liberation Party
		Rodrigo Madrigal Nieto	1978 – 1979	Unity Coalition
		Ramón Aguilar Facio	1979 – 1980	Unity Coalition
		Rafael Grillo Rivera	1980 – 1981	Unity Coalition
		Cristian Tattenbach Iglesias	1981 – 1982	Unity Coalition
		Hernán Garrón Salazar	1982 – 1983	National Liberation Party
		Jorge Luis Villanueva Badilla	1983 – 1984	National Liberation Party
		Bernal Jiménez Monge	1984 – 1985	National Liberation Party
		Guillermo Vargas Sanabria	1985 – 1986	National Liberation Party
		Rosemary Karspinsky Dodero	1986 – 1987	National Liberation Party
		Fernando Volio Jiménez	1987 – 1988	National Liberation Party
		José Luis Valenciano Chaves	1988 – 1989	National Liberation Party
		Allen Arias Angulo	1989 – 1990	National Liberation Party
		Juan José Trejos Fonseca	1990 – 1991	Social Christian Unity Party
		Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría	1991 – 1992	Social Christian Unity Party
		Roberto Tovar Faja	1992 – 1993	Social Christian Unity Party
		Danilo Chaverri Soto	1993 – 1994	Social Christian Unity Party
		Alberto Cañas Escalante	1994 – 1995	National Liberation Party
		Antonio Álvarez Desanti	1995 – 1996	National Liberation Party
		Jorge Walter Coto Molina	1996 – 1997	National Liberation Party
		Saúl Weisleder Weisleder	1997 – 1998	National Liberation Party
		Luis Fishman Zonzinski	1998 – 1999	Social Christian Unity Party
		Carlos Vargas Pagán	1999 – 2000	Social Christian Unity Party
		Rina Contreras López	2000 – 2001	Social Christian Unity Party
		Ovidio Pacheco Salazar	2001 – 2002	Social Christian Unity Party
		Rolando Laclé Castro	2002 – 2003	Social Christian Unity Party
		Mario Redondo Poveda	2003 – 2004	Social Christian Unity Party
		Gerardo González Esquivel	2004 – 2006	Social Christian Unity Party
		Francisco Antonio Pacheco Fernández	2006 – 2010	National Liberation Party
		Luis Gerardo Villanueva Monge	2010 – 2011	National Liberation Party
		Juan Carlos Mendoza García	2011 – 2012	Citizens' Action Party
		Víctor Emilio Granados Calvo	2012 – 2013	Accessibility without Exclusion
		Luis Fernando Mendoza Jiménez	2013 – 2014	National Liberation Party
		Henry Mora Jiménez	2014 – 2015	Citizens' Action Party
		Rafael Ortiz Fábrega	2015 – 2016	Social Christian Unity Party
		Antonio Álvarez Desanti	2016 – 2017	National Liberation Party
		Gonzalo Alberto Ramírez Zamora	2017 – 2018	Costa Rican Renewal Party
		Carolina Hidalgo Herrera	2018 – 2019	Citizens' Action Party
		Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez	2019 – 2020	National Liberation Party
		Eduardo Cruickshank Smith	2020 – 2021	National Restoration Party
		Silvia Hernández Sánchez	2021 – 2022	National Liberation Party
		Rodrigo Arias Sánchez	2022 – 2024	National Liberation Party

Sources

• Official website

• Presidents of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
• Lists of political office-holders in Costa Rica
• Lists of legislative speakers