Claudia López Hernández, Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia

Biography

Parliamentary service

• Senator for the Green Alliance Party from 2014-2018

Committee service

• Leader of the Anticorruption Consultation,  the most voted on citizen initiative in the history of Colombia

Parliamentary party positions

• 2017, she was a candidate of the Alianza Verde party for the presidential elections
• in March 2018, she became a Vice-presidential candidate of candidate Sergio Fajardo for the Colombia Coalition

Personal

• Born March 9, 1970, Bogotá, Colombia
• First openly homosexual person to be elected as mayor

Local government service

• Elected October 27, 2019 as first female elected mayor

Source: https://www.alianzaverde.org.co/electos-hoy/alcaldia-de-bogota-2020-2023

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