Manuel Antonio Virgüez Piraquive (born 10 May 1969) is a Colombian lawyer and politician, who served as

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as member of the MIRA party from 2006 to 2014.

Career

Virgüez attended Rafael Núñez University in Cartagena, where he graduated in

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. He completed post-graduate studies in Negotiations and Conflict Management from Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, and in Political Studies at

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in Bogotá. He joined the

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where he served as a non-commissioned naval diver for 18 years. Virgüez was Caribbean region coordinator of the MIRA party. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, as the second-in-line of the closed-

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of the MIRA party, headed by Senator

Alexandra Moreno Piraquive Alexandra Moreno Piraquive (born 23 August 1969) is a Colombian lawyer and politician, who served as Senator of Colombia from 2002 to 2014. Moreno is a co-founder of the Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA), a conservative soci ...

. The party received 237,512 votes, which earned them both seats in the Senate. During the second semester of 2008, he was elected Chair of the Fourth Commission of the Senate. Virgüez was re-elected in the 2010 parliamentary elections, as the second-in-line of the closed-electoral list of the MIRA party, headed by Senator Moreno. The party received 324,109 votes in the

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, which earned them three seats in the Senate, Virgüez taking one of these.

Political positions

Virgüez has been a strong supporter of the military, and has presented several bills related to the military service and the social and economic order.

References

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