At the beginning of the new legislative period 2024-2025, the Senate of the Republic chose the successor of Ivan Name as president of this legislative corporation.
As is tradition, after the respective speeches of the members of the outgoing Senate board of directors, which was also made up of Maria Jose Pizarro, First Vice Presidentand Didier Lobo, Second Vice Presidentthe vote was carried out in plenary session, which elected as the new president Efrain Cepedafrom the Conservative Party, with a total of 98 votes.
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Who is the new president of the Senate of the Republic?
Efrain Jose Cepeda Sarabia Born in Barranquilla in 1950, he is an industrial economist and specialist in high finance. He is a lieutenant commander in the naval reserve and a business and union leader in the Atlantic, the Caribbean region and the country for 17 years.
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He has been a Senator of the Republic for 18 consecutive years.serving as First Vice President of the Senate, twice President and twice Vice President of the Fourth Commission of this institution.
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In 2008, he obtained the highest vote in the country in the election of members of the National Conservative Directory with 164,000 votes.. In addition to being elected Vice President of the Christian Democratic Organization of America (ODCA).
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From the Conservative Party he promoted the programs Families in Action and the Bank of OpportunitiesHe led the same party to victory in the 2007 regional elections, making it the party with the largest number of mayors in the country, and increasing its vote by half a million.
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