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Ministry of the Presidency

Agency overview
Formed	24 December 1961 (1961-12-24)
Jurisdiction	Costa Rica
Annual budget	₡12,164,000,000 (2023)
Minister responsible	Natalia Diaz Quintana
Child agencies	Directorate of Intelligence and National Security Costa Rican Drug Institute Civil Service Administrative Court
Website	https://www.presidencia.go.cr/

The Ministry of the Presidency (Spanish: Ministerio de la Presidencia) is a ministry of the Republic of Costa Rica created on 24 December 1961 through Law 2980. Its work prescribed by law consists in providing support to the President of the Republic, serving as a liaison between the Presidency and the other branches of government, civil society and the various ministries.

Being one of the most political ministries, since it has to coordinate with the social and political organizations, with the Legislative Assembly and with the opposition groups, it is usually put in charge of one of the closest collaborators of the President. The Costa Rican intelligence agency, the Directorate of Intelligence and Security, reports to the Ministry of the Presidency, which has generated controversy.

Said portfolio is one of the most important in the Costa Rican presidential cabinet. The Minister of the Presidency has among its functions to coordinate inter-ministerial and inter-institutional work, to be an interlocutor between the President and the Parliament together with other tasks similar to those that in other countries fall on a Chief of Cabinet or Prime Minister, so usually a person of extreme confidence of the President is appointed. It is not unusual, too, that a few former presidential ministers have been later elected presidents of the Republic. The Minister of the Presidency, however, is not head of government, as Costa Rica's Constitution establishes that the President is both head of state and head of government.

The headquarters of the Ministry of the Presidency are located in Casa Presidencial in Zapote District, San José.

List of ministers

Ministers of the Presidency
No.	Minister		Period	Party	President
1		Mario Quirós Sasso	1962-1966	National Liberation Party			Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich
2		Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría	1970	National Unification Party			José Joaquín Trejos Fernández
3		Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez	1970-1974	National Liberation Party			José Figueres Ferrer
4		Wilburg Jiménez Castro	1975-1976	National Liberation Party			Daniel Oduber Quirós
4		Fernando Volio Jiménez	1977-1978
5		José Rafael Cordero Croceri	1978-1982	Unity Coalition			Rodrigo Carazo Odio
6		Fernando Berrocal Soto	1982-1984	National Liberation Party			Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez
7		Danilo Jiménez Veiga	1984-1986
8		Rodrigo Arias Sánchez	1986-1990	National Liberation Party			Óscar Arias Sánchez
9		Rodolfo Méndez Mata	1990-1991	Social Christian Unity Party			Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier
10		Rolando Laclé Castro	1991-1994
11		Rodrigo Oreamuno Blanco	1994-1996	National Liberation Party			José María Figueres Olsen
12		Marco Antonio Vargas Díaz	1996-1998
13		Roberto Tovar Faja	1998-1999	Social Christian Unity Party			Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría
14		Danilo Chaverri Soto	1999-2002
15		Ricardo Toledo Carranza	2002-2006	Social Christian Unity Party			Abel Pacheco de la Espriella
16		Rodrigo Arias Sánchez	2006-2010	National Liberation Party			Óscar Arias Sánchez
17		Marco Antonio Vargas Díaz	2010-2011	National Liberation Party			Laura Chinchilla Miranda
18		Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez	2011-2014
19		Melvin Jiménez Marín	2014-2015	Citizens' Action Party			Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera
20		Sergio Alfaro Salas	2015-2018
21		Rodolfo Piza Rocafort	2018-2019	Social Christian Unity Party			Carlos Alvarado Quesada
22		Víctor Morales Mora	2019-2020	Citizens' Action Party
23		Marcelo Prieto Jiménez	2020-2021	National Liberation Party
24		Geannina Dinarte Romero	2021-2022	Citizens' Action Party
25		Natalia Díaz Quintana	2022-present	United We Can			Rodrigo Chaves Robles

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