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In 2014 he was elected as a senator of Colombia for a 4-year term. He led debates related to the construction of transportation systems, land use, territorial planning, and the implications of climate change on land occupation. As a senator, he was a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs,
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He was twice elected by the Radical Change Party as its National Director. In the first stage in 2011, he revoked more than 300 endorsements for candidates questioned throughout the country for having possible links to illegal activities. In the second direction in 2013, he led the party during the
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as Secretary of Illusion of Transparency of the Presidency of the Republic, in this position he defined and coordinated the design of the anti-corruption and transparency policy in Colombia. He represented Colombia before the mechanisms for monitoring the anti-corruption conventions of the
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In 2018 he resigned from the Radical Change Party and the Senate. He ended his participation in the party after 11 years. His resignation was motivated by a lack of identification with the political project of
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In 2015, he resigned from the leadership of the Radical Change Party due to deep differences with various members of the community regarding the definition of various candidacies for the 2015 local elections.
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Defense, and International Trade, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Activities, and Chairman of the Committee on Decentralization and Land Use Planning.
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project and elected by journalists from the city as the Most Outstanding Councilor of 2011.1 That year he decided to be a candidate for Mayor of Bogotá, obtaining 285,263 votes.
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when he was Secretary General between 2001 and 2003 and electoral Observer in the 2001 presidential elections in
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With the largest vote in the history of the District Council (48,162 votes), 2 he was elected Councilor of
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for the Radical Change Party, from where he was one of the main opponents of the dismissed mayor
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due to ideological differences, the main of them, the support that his party decided to give
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and the Organization of American States, as well as in the Working Group on Bribery at the
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He was candidate for mayor of Bogotá in 2019 for the independent movement
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as a Foreign Service Professional with an emphasis in
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Index

Spanish name
surname

Mayor of Bogotá
Incumbent
Claudia López
President of
Council of Bogotá
Councilor of Bogotá
Senator of Colombia
Bogotá, D.C.
New Liberalism
Independent
Radical Change
Colombian Liberal Party
Carolina Deik
Juan Manuel Galán
Luis Carlos Galán
Gloria Pachón
Alma mater
Universidad Externado de Colombia
PhD
Georgetown University
BSFS
Colombia
Colombian Air Force

Second Lieutenant
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento
Juan Manuel Galán

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