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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

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The most recent parliamentary elections in Colombia were held on 13 March 2022, where 289 members of the congress were elected.

Leadership

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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

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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

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Party or Coalition # Photo Titular Commission

Pacto Histórico
(PH)
1 Gustavo Bolívar Moreno President of the Third Commission[4]
2 María José Pizarro Rodríguez First
3 Alexander López Maya First
4 Aída Yolanda Avella Esquivel Fourth
5 Roy Leonardo Barreras Montealegre First
President of the Senate and Congress (2022-2023)
6 Martha Isabel Peralta Epieyú Seventh
7 Iván Cepeda Castro Second
8 Piedad Esneda Córdoba Ruíz Seventh
9 Pedro Hernando Flórez Porras Sixth
10 Isabel Cristina Zuleta López Vice-president of the Fifth Commission[5]
11 Alex Xavier Flórez Hernandez Sixth
12 Clara Eugenia López Obregón Third
13 Robert Daza Guevara Sixth
14 Yuly Esmeralda Hernández Silva Fifth
15 Wilson Neber Arias Castillo [es] Fourth
16 Gloria Inés Flórez Schneider President of the Second Commission
17 César Augusto Pachón Achury [es] Fifth
18 Sandra Yaneth Jaimes Cruz Vice-president of the Sixth Commission
19 Paulino Riascos Riascos President of the Fourth Commission
20 Jahel Quiroga Carrillo Second

Partido Conservador Colombiano
(PC)
1 Nadia Georgette Blel Scaff Seventh
2 Carlos Andrés Trujillo González [es] President of the Sixth Commission
3 Marcos Daniel Pineda García Fifth
4 Efraín José Cepeda Sarabia Third
5 Liliana Esther Bittar Castilla [es] President of the Third Commission
6 Óscar Barreto Quiroga [es] First
7 Diela Liliana Benavides Solarte Fourth
8 Óscar Mauricio Giraldo Hernández Second
9 Nicolás Albeiro Echeverry Alvarán Second
10 Juan Samy Merheg Marún Fourth
11 Germán Alcides Blanco Álvarez First
12 Juan Carlos García Gómez First
13 José Alfredo Marín Lozano Seventh
14 Miguel Ángel Barreto Castillo [es] Fifth
15 Soledad Tamayo Tamayo Sixth

Partido Liberal Colombiano
(L)
1 Lidio Arturo García Turbay [es] Second
2 Juan Pablo Gallo Maya Third
3 Karina Espinosa Oliver [es] Third
4 Alejandro Carlos Chacón Camargo [es] First
5 Fabio Raúl Amín Saleme [es] President of the First Commission
6 Miguel Ángel Pinto Hernández Seventh
First Vice-president of the Senate (2022-2023)
7 Claudia María Pérez Giraldo Fourth
8 Alejandro Alberto Vega Pérez First
9 Juan Diego Echavarría Sánchez Third
10 Jaime Enrique Durán Barrera [es] Fifth
11 John Jairo Roldán Avendaño Fourth
12 Mauricio Gómez Amín Third
13 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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Coalición Alianza Verde-ASI
1 Jonathan Ferney Pulido Hernández [es] First
2 Humberto de la Calle Lombana First
3 Ariel Ávila [es] First
4 Angélica Lisbeth Lozano Correa Fourth
5 Inti Asprilla [es] President of the Fifth Commission
6 Jairo Alberto Castellanos Serrano Third
7 Ana Carolina Espitia Pérez Third
8 Guido Echeverri Piedrahita Sixth
9 Andrea Padilla Villarraga Fifth
10 Edwing Fabián Díaz Plata Vice-president of the Seventh Commission
11 Gustavo Adolfo Moreno Hurtado Sixth
12 Sor Berenice Bedoya Pérez Seventh
13 Iván Leonidas Name Vásquez Second
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Centro Democrático
(CD)
1 Miguel Uribe Turbay [es] Third
2 María Fernanda Cabal Molina First
3 Josué Alirio Barrera [es] Seventh
4 Andrés Felipe Guerra Hoyos Fifth
5 Esteban Quintero Cardona Sixth
6 Paola Andrea Holguín Moreno [es] Second
7 Paloma Susana Valencia Laserna [es] First
8 Enrique Cabrales Baquero Fourth
9 Carlos Manuel Mesiel Vergara Fourth
10 Ciro Alejandro Ramírez Cortés [es] Third
11 José Vicente Carreño Castro Second
12 Honorio Henríquez Seventh
Second Vice-president of the Senate (2022-2023)
13 Yenny Esperanza Rozo Zambrano Fifth
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Cambio Radical
(CR)
1 David Andrés Luna Sánchez First
2 Arturo Char Chaljub Third
3 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 Carlos Fernando Motoa Solarte [es] First
10 José Luis Pérez Oyuela Second
11 Didier Lobo Chinchilla Fifth
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Partido de la U
(U)
1 Juan Carlos Garcés Rojas Third
2 Jhon Moisés Besaile Fayad Fourth
3 Norma Hurtado [es] President of the Seventh Commission
4 José David Name Cardozo Fifth
5 Juan Felipe Lemos Uribe [es] Fourth
6 Julio Elías Chagüi Florez Sixth
7 Alfredo Rafael Deluque Zuleta First
8 Brener León Zambrano Eraso First
9 José Alfredo Gnecco Zuleta [es] Third
10 Antonio José Correa Jiménez [es] Second
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Comunes(FR)
1 Julián Gallo Cubillos [es] First
2 Sandra Ramírez Lobo Silva Sixth
3 Pablo Catatumbo Torres Victoria Fifth
4 Imelda Daza Third
5 Omar de Jesús Restrepo Correa [es] Seventh
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Nos Une Colombia [es]
(Colombia Justa Libres
MIRA)
1 Beatriz Lorena Ríos Cuéllar Seventh
2 Carlos Eduardo Guevara Villabón Sixth
3 Ana Paola Agudelo García Seventh
4 Manuel Antonio Virgüez Piraquive Second
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Movimiento Alternativo Indígena y Social [es]
(MAIS)

(Indigenous seat)
1 Aída Marina Quilcué Vivas Vice-president of the First Commission

Autoridades Indígenas de Colombia
(AICO)

(Indigenous Seat)
1 Polivio Leandro Rosales Cadena Seventh
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Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupción
(Presidential runner-up seat)
1 Rodolfo Hernández Suárez First

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Mesa Directiva" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Senate. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Así quedó la mesa directiva del Senado". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 21 July 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Ley 1921 de 2018" (PDF) (in Spanish). Colombia, Presidency. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Así quedaron compuestas las comisiones del Senado" [How the State Commissions Were Composed]. Infobae (in Spanish). 26 July 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  5. ^ "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.