Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Miguel Ángel Pinto | |
Office: | President of the Senate |
Status: | Acting |
Term Start: | May 4, 2023 |
Term End: | June 6, 2023 |
Predecessor: | Roy Barreras |
Successor: | Alexander López Maya |
Office2: | Vice President of the Senate |
Alongside2: | Honorio Henríquez |
President2: | Roy Barreras |
Term Start2: | July 20, 2022 |
Term End2: | July 20, 2023 |
Predecessor2: | Maritza Martinez Aristizábal |
Successor2: | María José Pizarro |
Office3: | Senator of Colombia |
Term Start3: | July 20, 2018 |
Office4: | President of the Chamber of Representatives |
Term Start4: | July 20, 2016 |
Term End4: | July 20, 2017 |
Predecessor4: | Alfredo Deluque |
Successor4: | Rodrigo Lara Bonilla |
Office5: | Member of the Chamber of Representatives |
Constituency5: | Santander |
Term Start5: | October 27, 2011 |
Term End5: | July 20, 2018 |
Birth Name: | Miguel Ángel Pinto Hernández |
Birth Date: | 14 November 1961 |
Birth Place: | Bucaramanga, Colombia |
Party: | Liberal (2000-present) |
Alma Mater: | Autonomous University of Bucaramanga |
Profession: | Medical doctor Politician |
Miguel Ángel Pinto Hernández (born November 14, 1961) is a Colombian politician, lawyer and specialist in administrative law, member of the Liberal party.[1]
Pinto has served as a Colombian Congressman, having served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives between 2011 and 2018, representing the department of Santander, in 2016 he was elected as president of the Chamber of Representatives,[2] [3] a position he served until July 20, 2017, in 2018 he became elected Senator, during the 2018 Parliamentary election, later he would be re-elected again, during the 2022 Parliamentary election on July 20, 2022, he would be elected as vice president of the Senate, a position that he shared with Senator Honorio Henríquez, Later on May 4, 2023, he would act as acting president of the Senate, after the removal of his predecessor Roy Barreras when he was found in double militancy, a position in which he would serve until June 6, when Alexander López Maya was elected as his successor.[4]
Pinto arrived at the Chamber of Representatives in October 2011, replacing Jesús Arenas, who lost the investiture of Congressman, after being found in double militancy, by the Supreme Court of Justice. Pinto, who had not obtained enough votes in the 2010 Parliamentary election, was later re-elected in 2014, as an electoral partner of Senator Horacio Serpa, thanks to his popularity in Congress, he was later elected as president of the First constitutional commission of the Chamber of Representatives, and then president of the Chamber of Representatives.[5]
In 2018 after his election as senator with a vote of 90 thousand votes, which allowed him to be elected president of the Senate Ethics Commission and then President of the First Commission. He was re-elected during the 2022 Parliamentary election on July 20, 2022, he would be elected vice president of the Senate, a position he shared with Senator Honorio Henríquez, later on May 4, 2023, he would act as acting president of the Senate, after the dismissal. of his predecessor Roy Barreras found in double militancy, a position in which he would serve until June 6, when Alexander López Maya was chosen as his successor.