List of current members of the Senate of Colombia
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This is a list of the current members of the Senate of Colombia for the 2022–2026 legislative period. Their term runs from 20 July 2022 to 19 July 2026.
The 9th Congress of the Republic of Colombia represents the legislative branch of the Republic of Colombia, comprising the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives, which meet in the country's capital, Bogota. The Congress is composed of 108 senators and 187 representatives.
Article 144 of the Colombian Constitution of 1991 establishes the Congress to be the highest representative power in the Legislative body of the nation. According to this Article, the duties of this Congress include reforming the Constitution, writing and developing new laws, and enforcing political control upon the Government and its administration.
2022 Colombian parliamentary election
[edit]The most recent parliamentary elections in Colombia were held on 13 March 2022, where 289 members of the congress were elected.
Leadership
[edit]The Board of Directors of the Senate is composed of a President and two Vice Presidents, nominated and elected separately by their peers for a period of one legislative year each, beginning on 20 July of each calendar year.[1] The current leadership will end their tenure on 19 July 2023.[2]
| Office | Officer | Party |
|---|---|---|
| President of the Senate | Roy Barreras | Historic Pact for Colombia |
| First Vice President | Miguel Ángel Pinto | Liberal Party |
| Second Vice President | Honorio Henríquez | Democratic Center |
Senate of the Republic of Colombia
[edit]The elected 108 members of the Senate were distributed by party as per the following list. As per Organic Law 1921 of 2018, the runner-up for the final Presidential election is given an automatic seat into the Senate and its running mate into the Chamber of Representatives:[3]
| Senate of Colombia | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Parties or Coalitions | Total votes | % | Seats |
| National List | |||
| Historic Pact for Colombia | 2,800,730 | 17.35 | 20 |
| Partido Conservador Colombiano | 2,223,061 | 14.18 | 15 |
| Partido Liberal Colombiano | 2,100,083 | 13.39 | 14 |
| Hope Center Coalition/ Alianza Verde | 1,954,792 | 12.28 | 13 |
| Centro Democrático | 1,917,153 | 12.08 | 13 |
| Partido Cambio Radical | 1,610,651 | 10.22 | 11 |
| Partido de la U | 1,508,031 | 9.63 | 10 |
| Comunes | 24,862 | 0.19 | 5 |
| Coalición MIRA / Colombia Justa Libres | 578,195 | 3.64 | 4 |
| Indigenous List | |||
| Movimiento Alternativo Indígena Social (MAIS) | 85,795 | 25.09 | 1 |
| Autoridades Indígenas de Colombia | 61,913 | 18.10 | 1 |
| Status as Presidential Opposition | |||
| Presidential Runner-up | 1 | ||
| Total seats | 108 | ||
| Sourceː Consejo Nacional Electoral | |||
Party lists
[edit]| Party or Coalition | # | Photo | Titular | Commission | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pacto Histórico (PH) |
1 | Gustavo Bolívar Moreno | President of the Third Commission[4] | ||
| 2 | 
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María José Pizarro Rodríguez | First | ||
| 3 | 
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Alexander López Maya | First | ||
| 4 | 
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Aída Yolanda Avella Esquivel | Fourth | ||
| 5 | 
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Roy Leonardo Barreras Montealegre | First President of the Senate and Congress (2022-2023)
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| 6 | 
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Martha Isabel Peralta Epieyú | Seventh | ||
| 7 | 
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Iván Cepeda Castro | Second | ||
| 8 | 
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Piedad Esneda Córdoba Ruíz | Seventh | ||
| 9 | Pedro Hernando Flórez Porras | Sixth | |||
| 10 | 
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Isabel Cristina Zuleta López | Vice-president of the Fifth Commission[5] | ||
| 11 | 
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Alex Xavier Flórez Hernandez | Sixth | ||
| 12 | 
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Clara Eugenia López Obregón | Third | ||
| 13 | 
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Robert Daza Guevara | Sixth | ||
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Yuly Esmeralda Hernández Silva | Fifth | ||
| 15 | 
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Wilson Neber Arias Castillo | Fourth | ||
| 16 | 
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Gloria Inés Flórez Schneider | President of the Second Commission | ||
| 17 | 
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César Augusto Pachón Achury | Fifth | ||
| 18 | 
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Sandra Yaneth Jaimes Cruz | Vice-president of the Sixth Commission | ||
| 19 | 
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Paulino Riascos Riascos | President of the Fourth Commission | ||
| 20 | 
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Jahel Quiroga Carrillo | Second | ||
 Partido Conservador Colombiano (PC) |
1 | 
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Nadia Georgette Blel Scaff | Seventh | |
| 2 | 
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Carlos Andrés Trujillo González | President of the Sixth Commission | ||
| 3 | 
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Marcos Daniel Pineda García | Fifth | ||
| 4 | 
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Efraín José Cepeda Sarabia | Third | ||
| 5 | Liliana Esther Bittar Castilla | President of the Third Commission | |||
| 6 | 
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Óscar Barreto Quiroga | First | ||
| 7 | Diela Liliana Benavides Solarte | Fourth | |||
| 8 | Óscar Mauricio Giraldo Hernández | Second | |||
| 9 | 
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Nicolás Albeiro Echeverry Alvarán | Second | ||
| 10 | 
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Juan Samy Merheg Marún | Fourth | ||
| 11 | Germán Alcides Blanco Álvarez | First | |||
| 12 | Juan Carlos García Gómez | First | |||
| 13 | 
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José Alfredo Marín Lozano | Seventh | ||
| 14 | 
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Miguel Ángel Barreto Castillo | Fifth | ||
| 15 | 
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Soledad Tamayo Tamayo | Sixth | ||
 Partido Liberal Colombiano (L) |
1 | 
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Lidio Arturo García Turbay | Second | |
| 2 | 
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Juan Pablo Gallo Maya | Third | ||
| 3 | Karina Espinosa Oliver | Third | |||
| 4 | Alejandro Carlos Chacón Camargo | First | |||
| 5 | 
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Fabio Raúl Amín Saleme | President of the First Commission | ||
| 6 | 
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Miguel Ángel Pinto Hernández | Seventh First Vice-president of the Senate (2022-2023)
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| 7 | Claudia María Pérez Giraldo | Fourth | |||
| 8 | Alejandro Alberto Vega Pérez | First | |||
| 9 | Juan Diego Echavarría Sánchez | Third | |||
| 10 | 
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Jaime Enrique Durán Barrera | Fifth | ||
| 11 | 
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John Jairo Roldán Avendaño | Fourth | ||
| 12 | 
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Mauricio Gómez Amín | Third | ||
| 13 | 
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Mario Alberto Castaño Pérez | Arrested and divested. Outcomes on the seat to be defined. | ||
| 14 | Laura Esther Fortich Sánchez | Vice-president of the Fourth Commission | |||
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1 | Jonathan Ferney Pulido Hernández | First | ||
| 2 | 
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Humberto de la Calle Lombana | First | ||
| 3 | 
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Ariel Ávila | First | ||
| 4 | 
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Angélica Lisbeth Lozano Correa | Fourth | ||
| 5 | 
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Inti Asprilla | President of the Fifth Commission | ||
| 6 | Jairo Alberto Castellanos Serrano | Third | |||
| 7 | 
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Ana Carolina Espitia Pérez | Third | ||
| 8 | 
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Guido Echeverri Piedrahita | Sixth | ||
| 9 | 
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Andrea Padilla Villarraga | Fifth | ||
| 10 | Edwing Fabián Díaz Plata | Vice-president of the Seventh Commission | |||
| 11 | Gustavo Adolfo Moreno Hurtado | Sixth | |||
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Sor Berenice Bedoya Pérez | Seventh | ||
| 13 | 
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Iván Leonidas Name Vásquez | Second | ||
 (CD) |
1 | 
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Miguel Uribe Turbay | Third | |
| 2 | 
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María Fernanda Cabal Molina | First | ||
| 3 | Josué Alirio Barrera | Seventh | |||
| 4 | Andrés Felipe Guerra Hoyos | Fifth | |||
| 5 | Esteban Quintero Cardona | Sixth | |||
| 6 | 
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Paola Andrea Holguín Moreno | Second | ||
| 7 | 
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Paloma Susana Valencia Laserna | First | ||
| 8 | Enrique Cabrales Baquero | Fourth | |||
| 9 | Carlos Manuel Mesiel Vergara | Fourth | |||
| 10 | 
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Ciro Alejandro Ramírez Cortés | Third | ||
| 11 | José Vicente Carreño Castro | Second | |||
| 12 | 
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Honorio Henríquez | Seventh Second Vice-president of the Senate (2022-2023)
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| 13 | Yenny Esperanza Rozo Zambrano | Fifth | |||
 (CR) |
1 | 
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David Andrés Luna Sánchez | First | |
| 2 | 
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Arturo Char Chaljub | Third | ||
| 3 | 
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Antonio Luis Zabaraín Guevara | Third | ||
| 4 | Carlos Abraham Jiménez López | Fourth | |||
| 5 | Edgar Jesús Díaz Contreras | Fifth | |||
| 6 | Carlos Mario Farelo Daza | Fourth | |||
| 7 | Jorge Enrique Benedetti Martelo | First | |||
| 8 | Ana María Castañeda Gómez | Sixth | |||
| 9 | 
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Carlos Fernando Motoa Solarte | First | ||
| 10 | José Luis Pérez Oyuela | Second | |||
| 11 | 
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Didier Lobo Chinchilla | Fifth | ||
 (U) |
1 | Juan Carlos Garcés Rojas | Third | ||
| 2 | Jhon Moisés Besaile Fayad | Fourth | |||
| 3 | Norma Hurtado | President of the Seventh Commission | |||
| 4 | 
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José David Name Cardozo | Fifth | ||
| 5 | Juan Felipe Lemos Uribe | Fourth | |||
| 6 | Julio Elías Chagüi Florez | Sixth | |||
| 7 | 
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Alfredo Rafael Deluque Zuleta | First | ||
| 8 | Brener León Zambrano Eraso | First | |||
| 9 | 
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José Alfredo Gnecco Zuleta | Third | ||
| 10 | 
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Antonio José Correa Jiménez | Second | ||
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1 | 
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Julián Gallo Cubillos | First | |
| 2 | 
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Sandra Ramírez Lobo Silva | Sixth | ||
| 3 | 
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Pablo Catatumbo Torres Victoria | Fifth | ||
| 4 | 
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Imelda Daza | Third | ||
| 5 | 
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Omar de Jesús Restrepo Correa | Seventh | ||
  Nos Une Colombia (Colombia Justa Libres MIRA) |
1 | Beatriz Lorena Ríos Cuéllar | Seventh | ||
| 2 | 
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Carlos Eduardo Guevara Villabón | Sixth | ||
| 3 | 
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Ana Paola Agudelo García | Seventh | ||
| 4 | 
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Manuel Antonio Virgüez Piraquive | Second | ||
 (MAIS) (Indigenous seat) |
1 | 
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Aída Marina Quilcué Vivas | Vice-president of the First Commission | |
 Autoridades Indígenas de Colombia (AICO) (Indigenous Seat) |
1 | 
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Polivio Leandro Rosales Cadena | Seventh | |
 (Presidential runner-up seat) |
1 | 
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Rodolfo Hernández Suárez | First | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Mesa Directiva" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Senate. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ "Así quedó la mesa directiva del Senado". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 21 July 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ "Ley 1921 de 2018" (PDF) (in Spanish). Colombia, Presidency. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ "Así quedaron compuestas las comisiones del Senado" [How the State Commissions Were Composed]. Infobae (in Spanish). 26 July 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Tres de las siete comisiones del Senado serán lideradas por el Pacto Histórico" [Three of the Seven Senate Commissions Will be Led by the Historic Pact] (in Spanish). Radio Nacional de Colombia. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.