María Fernanda Campo Saavedra is the former

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until August 2014. In 2011 she was appointed

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Mayor of Bogotá by President

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in replacement of Samuel Moreno Rojas, who was stripped of his office following an investigation into the appropriation of city contracts. An

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, before her nomination she was the President of the

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from 2000 to 2010, the first woman to hold that position, and has also served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1998 and 1999.

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