Mario Uribe Escobar
Mario de Jesús Uribe Escobar (born 1949) is a Colombian politician and lawyer. Uribe-Escobar graduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Medellín and the University of Antioquia.

Political career

He began his political career as councilman of his hometown; the municipality of Andes, Department of Antioquia. Between 1982 and 1986 served as deputy of the Department Assembly of Antioquia and then to the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia in representation of Antioquia, serving from 1986 to 1994, in which he was Vice President of the Chamber between 1990 and 1991 and worked as member and president of the Investigations and Accusations Commission. In 1994 Uribe-Escobar was elected to the Senate of Colombia and served until October 2007. Uribe-Escoba ...
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Senator Of Colombia
The Senate of the Republic of Colombia () is the upper house of the Congress of Colombia, with the lower house being the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, Chamber of Representatives. The Senate has 108 members elected for concurrent (non-rotating) four-year terms. Electoral system According to the Colombian Constitution of 1991, Colombian Constitution (1991), 100 senators (''senadores'') are elected from a single national constituency, and another two are elected in a special national constituency for Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Indigenous communities. Following the Colombian peace process, peace process (2012–2016), the FARC (party: Commons (Colombian political party), Comunes) gets another five seats and the presidential opposition gets one more, for a total of 108. Colombian citizens living outside the country are eligible to vote, although, unlike in the lower house, they have no special representatives in the Senate. For elections to the Senate in the nation ...
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