List of current members of the Senate of Colombia

This is a list of the current members of the Senate of Colombia for the 2018-2022 legislative period; their term will end on 19 July 2022.

Leadership

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 the 20th of July of each calendar year.[1] The current leadership will end their tenure on 19 July 2020.[2]

Office	Officer	Party
President of the Senate	Lidio García	Colombian Liberal Party
First Vice President	Honorio Henríquez	Democratic Center
Second Vice President	Alexander López	Alternative Democratic Pole

List

Results 11 March 2018 Elections List of current members of the Senate of Colombia
Party	Total Votes	%	Seats
Democratic Center	2,513,320	16.41	19
Radical Change	2,155,487	14.07	16
Colombian Conservative Party	1,927,320	12.58	14
Colombian Liberal Party	1,901,933	12.42	14
Party of the U	1,853,054	12.10	14
Green Alliance	1,317,429	8.60	9
Alternative Democratic Pole	736,367	4.80	5
List of Decency Coalition	523,286	3.41	3+1
Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation	501,489	3.27	3
Fair and Free Colombia	432,418	2.81	3
Indigenous and Social Alternative Movement	72,591	0.42	1
Common Alternative Revolutionary Force	52,532	0.34	5
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia Movement	34,957	0.23	1
Total seats			108
Source: National Civil Registry

Party	Senators
Democratic Center	Fernando Araújo Rumié María Fernanda Cabal Ruby Chagüí Alejandro Corrales José Obdulio Gaviria Amanda Rocío González María del Rosario Guerra Honorio Henríquez Paola Holguín Ernesto Macías Tovar Carlos Manuel Meisel Carlos Felipe Mejía Nicolas Pérez Vásquez Ciro Alejandro Ramírez John Harold Suárez Álvaro Uribe Santiago Valencia Paloma Valencia Gabriel Velasco
Radical Change	Richard Aguilar Ana María Castañeda Emma Claudia Castellanos Fabián Castillo Arturo Char Édgar Díaz Luis Eduardo Díaz Daira Galvis Carlos Abraham Jiménez Rodrigo Lara Didier Lobo Carlos Fernando Motoa Temístocles Ortega José Luis Pérez Germán Varón Antonio Luis Zabaraín
Colombian Conservative Party	Laureano Acuña Esperanza Andrade David Barguil Miguel Barreto Nadia Blel Scaff Efraín Cepeda Eduardo Enríquez Maya Nora García Juan Carlos García Juan Diego Gómez Juan Samy Merheg Myriam Alicia Paredes Soledad Tamayo^1 Carlos Andrés Trujillo
Colombian Liberal Party	Iván Darío Agudelo Fabio Amín Julián Bedoya Mario Castaño Andrés Cristo Jaime Durán Barrera Laura Fortich Guillermo García Realpe Lidio García Turbay Mauricio Gómez Amín Miguel Ángel Pinto Horacio José Serpa Luis Fernando Velasco Rodrigo Villalba Mosquera
Party of the U	Miguel Amín Roy Barreras Armando Benedetti John Besaile Andrés García Zuccardi José Alfredo Gnecco Germán Darío Hoyos Juan Felipe Lemos José Ritter López Maritza Martínez Jose David Name Eduardo Pulgar Roosvelt Rodríguez Berner Zambrano
Green Alliance	Juan Luis Castro Jorge Londoño Angélica Lozano Iván Marulanda Antanas Mockus Iván Name Sandra Ortíz José Aulo Polo Antonio Sanguino
Alternative Democratic Pole	Wilson Arias^2 Jesús Castilla Iván Cepeda Alexander López Maya Jorge Enrique Robledo
List of Decency Coalition	Aída Avella Gustavo Bolívar Jonatan Tamayo Pérez (ASI) Gustavo Petro (Colombia Humana)^3
Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation	Ana Paola Agudelo Carlos Eduardo Guevara Aydeé Lizarazo Cubillos
Fair and Free Colombia	Eduardo Pacheco Edgar Palacio Mizrahi John Milton Rodríguez
Common Alternative Revolutionary Force	Julián Gallo Criselda Lobo Silva Victoria Sandino Simanca Pablo Catatumbo Torres Israel Zúñiga^4
Indigenous and Social Alternative Movement	Feliciano Valencia
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia Movement	Manuel Bitervo Palchucan

Notes

• ¹ The seat was originally won by Aída Merlano, but her election was annulled on 16 May 2019 by the Council of State who found evidence of vote-buying.[3] As the person with the next-highest number of votes on the Colombian Conservative Party list, Soledad Tamayo replaced her on 29 May 2019.[4]
• ² The seat was originally won by Leonidas Gómez, but he resigned his seat on 11 December 2018 in order to run for Governor of Santander Department.[5] As the person with the next-highest number of votes on the Alternative Democratic Pole party list, Wilson Arias replaced him on 26 December 2018.[6]
• ³ Gustavo Petro did not run in the Senate elections, but as the runner-up in the presidential election, he was entitled to a seat in the Senate.[7] He aligned his Colombia Humana party with the List of Decency Coalition.
• ⁴ The seat was originally won by Iván Márquez, but following the arrest of Jesús Santrich on 9 April 2018, he refused to take up his seat in the Senate,[8] and the Council of State annulled his election on 11 June 2019.[9] As the person with the next-highest number of votes on the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force party list, Israel Zúñiga replaced him on 23 July 2019.[10]

See also

• List of Presidents of Colombia
• List of Vice Presidents of Colombia

References

1. "Mesa Directiva" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Senate. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
2. "Los tres que serían elegidos en la Mesa Directiva del Senado". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 20 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
3. "Por compra de votos anulan la elección de Aída Merlano al Senado". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 16 May 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
4. "Exconcejala Soledad Tamayo toma la curul de Aida Merlano en el Senado". El País (in Spanish). 29 May 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
5. "Leonidas Gómez deja el Senado para aspirar a Gobernación de Santander". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 11 December 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
6. "Wilson Arias se posesionó como senador". El Espectador (in Spanish). 26 December 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
7. Reinoso Rodríguez, Guillermo (17 June 2018). "Petro, un líder de la oposición en Senado con ocho millones de votos". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 October 2019.
8. "'Iván Márquez' no ocupará su curul en el senado el próximo 20 de julio". El Espectador (in Spanish). 25 April 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
9. "Decretan muerte política a Iván Márquez por no posesionarse en Senado". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 11 December 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
10. "¿Quién es el nuevo senador de Farc que reemplaza a Iván Márquez?". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 23 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.