David Alejandro Barguil Assis (born June 23, 1981) is a Colombian politician,

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and member of the Conservative Party. Barguil has served as a Colombian

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, having served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 2010 to 2018, representing the department of

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and more recently as a

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from 2018 to 2022, obtaining in the latter the highest vote in the 2018 Parliamentary election and the highest election of a congressman from the Conservative Party. On August 27, 2014, he was unanimously elected as the President of the National Board of the Conservative Party, a position he held until December 27, 2016, being the youngest president in the history of that group, with 33 years at that time. On October 20, 2021, his candidacy for the

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was announced as a pre-candidate of the Conservative Party, being later unanimously ratified as the official candidate of the Conservative Party for the 2022 Parliamentary election, in which he received the third highest vote of his coalition

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during the

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Personal life

David Alejandro Barguil Assis was born on June 23, 1981, in

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into a conservative middle-class family, of Syrian origin as a child he was abandoned by his father, for which his mother worked as a single mother, attended the León de Greff school until high school and where he would later graduate, being a member of the Creative Youth Organization group, later he would participate in a television program aimed at young audiences that was broadcast by

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. Later he graduated in Finance, Government,

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, specialist in

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and Business Legal Relations from the

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. Then he would move to

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, Canada as a fellow in the Economics and Politics program at the Université de Montreal

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barguil, David 1981 births Living people 21st-century Colombian politicians Members of the Senate of Colombia Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia Universidad Externado de Colombia alumni Politicians from Córdoba Colombian Conservative Party politicians Colombian people of Syrian descent People associated with the 2022 Colombian presidential election