The Ninth Congress of the Republic of Colombia is the current convocation of the legislative branch of the Republic of Colombia, composed of the

Senate of Colombia The Senate of the Republic of Colombia ( es, Senado de la República de Colombia) is the upper house of the Congress of Colombia, with the lower house being the House of Representatives. The Senate has 108 members elected for concurrent (non-r ...

and the

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. It meets in

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from 20 July 2022 to 20 July 2026. In total, it is made up of 108 Senators and 187 Representatives. Article 114 of the

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proclaims Congress as the highest representative body of the

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. According to article 114, it is up to the Congress of the Republic of Colombia to reform the Constitution, make laws and exercise political control over the government and administration. Currently, the "Legislative Observatory" of the

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and the "Visible Congress" program of the University of Los Andes monitor the Congress of the Republic.

2022 parliamentary election

The 2022 Colombian parliamentary election were held on Sunday, 13 March 2022, where the 289 representatives of the House of Representatives and members of the Senate were elected.

Senate

Seats by political party

The 108 Senators were distributed by party as follows: Senators are elected in a national constituency. The upper house is made up of 108 senators, of which 5 belong to the seats agreed upon in Havana, 2 seats to the special indigenous constituency and one seat for the presidential candidate of the formula that came second in the

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. The senators are distributed by mutual agreement in 7 commissions; First Commission that is in charge of constitutional issues, Second Commission of international politics and public force, Third Commission of finance and public credit, Fourth of budget and fiscal control, Fifth of agrarian and environmental sector; Sixth of communications, public services and calamities and Seventh of labor issues. The order of the following list obeys, if it is an open list, the vote obtained by each senator within his party and in the case of the closed list, the order in which they were ordered by the coalition or party.

Chamber of Representatives

The 187 members of the Chamber of Representatives were distributed by party as follows:

Representatives of the Chamber

After the 2022 Colombian parliamentary election, the Colombian Chamber of Representatives was made up of 187 legislators: 165 elected by regional constituencies (32 departments, Capital District and special constituencies of Colombians residing abroad, Afro-Colombians and indigenous communities), 5 belonging to the seats agreed upon in Havana, 16 belonging to the Special Transitory Circumscriptions of Peace, and one seat for the vice-presidential candidate of the formula that comes second in the Colombian presidential elections of 2022:

References

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