Ivan Duque
Iván Duque Marquez (born August 1, 1976 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian lawyer and politician of the right-wing conservative party Centro Democrático (CD). Duque was elected President of Colombia on June 17, 2018 and sworn into office on August 7, 2018. He has been a member of the Senate of the Congress of the Republic since 2014 .
Life
Iván Duque is the son of Iván Duque Escobar, born in Gómez Plata , Departamento de Antioquia , also a lawyer and politician, and Juliana Márquez Tono, born in Ibagué , Departamento del Tolima . He studied law at the private Catholic University Sergio Arboleda and at the American University and Georgetown University , Washington, DC , with Master -Abschlüssen in finance, public administration and international law . In the 2018 election campaign, Duque advertised with a résumé that included attending courses at Harvard Business School as a further qualification.
Before entering the Senate in 2014 (after the parliamentary elections on March 9, 2014), Duque was head of the Department for Culture, Creativity and Solidarity at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where he worked in many projects for social responsibility, youth, creative industries and culture was responsible.
Iván Duque is a political protégé and confidante of the former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez . In the runoff election for president on June 17, 2018 against Gustavo Petro , the first leftist candidate to win a runoff, he received 54.76% of the votes cast.
He is married to the lawyer María Juliana Ruiz, with whom he has two daughters and a son.
Positions
Duque criticizes the peace agreement between the rebel organization FARC and the Colombian state . The agreement negotiated by his predecessor Juan Manuel Santos had ended the decades-long conflict in the country. Duque wanted to have it changed in essential points, but did not get permission from the Constitutional Court.
In mid-February 2019, during a visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Colombia , Duque described the policy of the Nicolás Maduro government not to let any relief goods into Venezuela as a “crime against humanity” and, in his opinion, “all necessary measures” must be taken to stop the " genocide in Venezuela".
Web links
- Personal website (Spanish)
Footnotes
- ↑ Iván Duque, el nuevo Presidente de Colombia eltiempo.com, June 18, 2018 (Spanish)
- ↑ FAZ.net / Tjerk Brühwiller: Right-wing conservative candidate wins election in Colombia
- ↑ Biography on his website ivanduque.com, accessed April 19, 2019 (Spanish)
- ↑ Iván Duque, el nuevo Presidente de Colombia eltiempo.com, June 18, 2018 (Spanish)
- ↑ FAZ.net / Tjerk Brühwiller: Right-wing conservative candidate wins election in Colombia
- ↑ Iván Duque no se especializó en Harvard, como dice su hoja de vida pulzo.com, accessed on June 18, 2018 (Spanish)
- ↑ Senador Iván Duque Márquez congresovisible.org, accessed January 22, 2018 (Spanish)
- ↑ Iván Duque, el hombre de Uribe semana.com, October 12, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ Background news “This morning” from Radio SRF , srf.ch from May 29, 2018, from minute 5:15
- ↑ Iván Duque, el nuevo Presidente de Colombia eltiempo.com, June 18, 2018 (Spanish)
- ↑ eltiempo.com December 11, 2017 (Spanish): Este es Iván Duque, el candidato uribista a la presidencia 2018
- ↑ Duque is not allowed to change the peace treaty nzz.ch. Accessed June 3, 2019
- ^ A borderline case called Duque , sueddeutsche.de of February 13, 2019, accessed on February 25, 2019
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Juan Manuel Santos |
President of Colombia 2018– |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Duque, Iván |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duque Marquez, Iván |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian Political Leader of the United Vigilantes of Colombia (AUC), lawyer and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bogotá |