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Olivier Pérez González

Costa Rican politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ16613508 ↗
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Olivier Pérez González (born 8 June 1949) is a Costa Rican lawyer and retired politician who served as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2010. A member of the Citizens' Action Party, he chaired the party from 2013 to 2014.

He is a lawyer who graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Centro América (Autonomous University of Central America).

Pérez represented Puntarenas as a deputy between 2006 and 2010. As a deputy, he was Secretary of the Commission on Economic and Tourism Affairs.

Pérez campaigned vigorously on behalf of Luis Guillermo Solís for the presidency, which Solís eventually won. During the campaign, Pérez criticized corruption from the National Liberation Party

Pérez replaced Elizabeth Fonseca Corrales as president of PAC, earning 43 votes to Federico Picado's 26 votes in a party assembly. Pérez claims that he will continue the PAC's open primary system.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Olivier Pérez González” as costa Rican politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2006, 2010, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Olivier, Pérez and González can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as costa Rican politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16613508. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949, 2006, 2010 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Olivier Pérez González” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.