Ivan Duque

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iván Duque, August 2018

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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Iván Duque, el nuevo Presidente de Colombia eltiempo.com, June 18, 2018 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ FAZ.net / Tjerk Brühwiller: Right-wing conservative candidate wins election in Colombia
  3. ↑ Biography on his website ivanduque.com, accessed April 19, 2019 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Iván Duque, el nuevo Presidente de Colombia eltiempo.com, June 18, 2018 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ FAZ.net / Tjerk Brühwiller: Right-wing conservative candidate wins election in Colombia
  6. ↑ Iván Duque no se especializó en Harvard, como dice su hoja de vida pulzo.com, accessed on June 18, 2018 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Senador Iván Duque Márquez congresovisible.org, accessed January 22, 2018 (Spanish)
  8. ↑ Iván Duque, el hombre de Uribe semana.com, October 12, 2017 (Spanish)
  9. ↑ Background news “This morning” from Radio SRF , srf.ch from May 29, 2018, from minute 5:15
  10. ↑ Iván Duque, el nuevo Presidente de Colombia eltiempo.com, June 18, 2018 (Spanish)
  11. ↑ eltiempo.com December 11, 2017 (Spanish): Este es Iván Duque, el candidato uribista a la presidencia 2018
  12. ↑ Duque is not allowed to change the peace treaty nzz.ch. Accessed June 3, 2019
  13. ^ A borderline case called Duque , sueddeutsche.de of February 13, 2019, accessed on February 25, 2019
predecessor Office successor
Juan Manuel Santos President of Colombia
2018–
personal data
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