Gustavo Petro

Gustavo Petro
Official portrait, 2022
34th President of Colombia
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 August 2022
Vice President	Francia Márquez
Preceded by	Iván Duque
Senator of Colombia
In office 20 July 2018 – 20 July 2022
In office 20 July 2006 – 20 July 2010
797th Mayor of Bogotá
In office 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2015 Out of office: 19 March 2014 – 23 April 2014
Preceded by	Clara López
Succeeded by	Enrique Peñalosa
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 20 July 1998 – 20 July 2006
Constituency	Capital District
In office 1 December 1991 – 20 July 1994
Constituency	Cundinamarca
Personal details
Born	Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (1960-04-19) 19 April 1960 (age 64) Ciénaga de Oro, Córdoba, Colombia
Political party	Humane Colombia (since 2011)
Other political affiliations	Historic Pact for Colombia See more M-19 (1990–1997) Alternative Way (1998–2002) Regional Integration Movement (2002–2004) Alternative Democratic Pole (2004–2010)
Spouse(s)	Katia Burgos ​ ​ (m. 1986; div. 1992)​ Mary Luz Herrán ​ ​ (m. 1992; div. 2003)​ Verónica Alcocer ​ (m. 2000)​
Children	5
Alma mater	External University of Colombia Graduate School of Public Administration Pontifical Xavierian University University of Salamanca
Signature
Website	gustavopetro.co

Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡusˈtaβo fɾanˈsisko ˈpetɾo uˈreɣo]; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician who is the President of Colombia since 2022. Petro was a Senator from 2018 until 2022. He was senator before from 2006 until 2010. He was mayor of Bogotá from 2012 until 2015. From 1991 until 1994 and again from 1998 until 2006, Petro was a member of the Colombia House of Representatives.

At aged 17, Petro became a member of the guerrilla group 19th of April Movement and was part of the group when he was elected to the House of Representatives.^[1]

He ran for the presidency of Colombia in the 2010 election, finishing fourth in the race. Petro ran again for president and came in second in the first round of the 2018 election with over 25% of the votes and lost in the run-off election on June 17 to Iván Duque.

Petro ran again for president in the 2022 election.^[2] His campaign focused on climate change and reducing Greenhouse gas emissions that cause it by ending fossil fuel exploration in Colombia.^[3] In May 2022, he came in first place in the first round of voting and advanced to the June run-off against right-wing populist Rodolfo Hernández Suárez.^[4] In June 2022, he won the election by a 50% to 47% margin and became the country's first left-wing president in Colombia's history.^[5]

1. ↑ "Gustavo Petro, Colombia's unorthodox left-wing presidential candidate". www.efe.com. Archived from the original on 2022-04-21. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
2. ↑ "Gustavo Petro: Ex-rebel wins his coalition's primary". BBC News. 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
3. ↑ Aronoff, Kate (2022-03-22). "Colombia's Fossil Fuel Industry Is Freaking Out About Presidential Front-Runner Gustavo Petro". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
4. ↑ "Elecciones presidenciales en Colombia 2022, en vivo: Gustavo Petro y Rodolfo Hernández competirán por la presidencia". El Pais. 29 May 2022.
5. ↑ Cite error: The named reference reutersroundtwo was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).