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The president of Colombia (President of the Republic) ... Gustavo Petro is the 34th and current president, having assumed office on 7 August 2022. Executive powers
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego [c] ODB ODSC ODIC (Latin American Spanish: [ɡusˈtaβo fɾanˈsisko ˈpetɾo uˈreɣo]; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician who is the 34th and current president of Colombia since 2022. Upon inauguration, he became the first left-wing president in the recent history of Colombia. [1] [2]
Petro was inaugurated alongside Francia Márquez, the second woman, first Afro-Colombian vice president. [12] [13] On 8 August 2022, after taking office as President of Colombia, Petro announced who would be the ministers at the beginning of his government, and announced José Antonio Ocampo as the Minister of Finance and Public Credit ...
During the parliamentary elections on 13 March 2022, different consultations to elect a presidential candidate also took place. Gutiérrez and his coalition won first place with over 1.8 million votes, improving his chances of becoming President of Colombia in 2022. [80]
But relations between the two nations have cooled since Petro was elected as Colombia’s first leftist president in 2022. Colombia uses Israeli-built warplanes and machine guns to fight drug ...
Upon his historic election last year, Colombia’s rebel-turned-president Gustavo Petro promised to cement “total peace” and end one of the world’s longest-running conflicts.
September 2, 2022 at 5:00 PM. Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla who campaigned as a moderate, has not yet completed his first month in office. But his first steps on ...
Rafael Núñez Moledo, the first president, was actually inaugurated in 1884 as the 14th and last president of the United States of Colombia for a two-year constitutional term; in this capacity he was appointed by the National Constituent Assembly of 1885 to serve a new six-year term while the assembly drafted, passed, signed, and implemented a ...