David Barguil

David Alejandro Barguil Assis (born 23 June 1981) is a Colombian politician, Master of Finance and member of the Conservative Party. Barguil has served as a Colombian Congressman, having served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 2010 to 2018, representing the department of Córdoba and more recently as a Senator of Colombia 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 27 August 2014, he was unanimously elected as the President of the National Board of the Conservative Party, a position he held until 27 December 2016, being the youngest president in the history of that group, with 33 years at that time. On 20 October 2021, his candidacy for the presidency of Colombia 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 Team for Colombia during the 2022 Colombian presidential primaries.