Soledad Tamayo Tamayo (March 20, 1958, Palermo, Paipa, Colombia) is a Colombian lawyer and politician.[1]

Soledad Tamayo Tamayo
Senator of the Republic of Colombia
Assumed office
July 20, 2022
In office
April 14, 2021 – July 2022
Personal details
Born (1958-03-20) March 20, 1958 (age 66)
Palermo, Colombia
EducationSaint Thomas Aquinas University
OccupationPolitician, lawyer

Biography

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Born in Palermo, Paipa, Boyacá, she is the sister of politicians Fernando Tamayo Tamayo and Helio Rafael Tamayo Tamayo. She joined the Conservative Party at a very young age. She studied law at the Universidad Santo Tomás and specialized in social policy at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.[2]

Her career as a politician began as a police inspector in Bogotá between 1983 and 1985.[1] Between 1986 and 1994 she was advisor of the district cadastre in the mayor's office of Andrés Pastrana.[1] In 1995 she was councilor of Bogotá until 2011 where she was president of the Council in 2009–2010.[1] In 2018 she aspired to be senator of the republic in 2018, in which she was not elected.[1] She was substitute senator in two periods: 2018 and 2021–2022 for the deaths of Fernando Tamayo Tamayo Tamayo and Eduardo Enríquez Maya. In 2022 she was elected by popular vote.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Soledad Tamayo". lasillavacia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  2. ^ "Soledad Tamayo, nueva presidenta del Concejo de Bogotá". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  3. ^ Colprensa, Bogotá (2020-07-27). "Exsenadora, Soledad Tamayo dice que al conservatismo le aplicaron dos veces la silla vacía". vanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  4. ^ "Noticias Gerenciales de Colombia para ejecutivos – Noticieroficial". noticieroficial.com. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
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