Senate (Colombia)
logo | Parliament building |
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Basic data | |
Seat: | Capitolio Nacional de Colombia , Bogotá |
Legislative period : | 4 years |
MPs: | 108 |
Current legislative period | |
Last choice: | May 24, 2018 |
Chair: | President of the House of Ernesto Macías Tovar ( Centro Democrático ) |
Distribution of seats: |
Government (53)
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Website | |
www.senado.gov.co |
The Senate of Colombia ( Spanish Senado de la República de Colombia ) is the upper house of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia , the country's parliament .
The Senate consists of 108 elected senators whose term of office is four years. To become a Senator, the elected person must be a native Colombian and have reached the age of 30 at the time of the election. 100 senatorial seats are elected via a national list of individual candidates. The remaining two senatorial seats are divided among people who come from the indigenous and Afro-American minorities.
In addition to the Senate, the House of Representatives of Colombia is the lower house . The Senate is located in the National Capitol of Colombia in Bogotá .
President of the Senate
Senate President has been Ernesto Macías Tovar from the Centro Democrático since July 20, 2018 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernesto Macías Tovar, nuevo Presidente del Senado de la República senado.gov.co, accessed on May 26, 2019 (Spanish)
Coordinates: 4 ° 35 '54.1 " N , 74 ° 4' 35.5" W.