David Barguil

David Alejandro Barguil Assis (born June 23, 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 between July 20, 2010, and July 20, 2018, representing the department of Córdoba and more recently as a Senator of Colombia between 20 from July 2018 to July 20, 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 August 27, 2014, he was unanimously elected as the President of the National Board of the Conservative Party, a position he held until December 27, 2016, being the youngest president in the history of that group, with 33 years at that time.

On October 20, 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.

Personal life
David Alejandro Barguil Assis was born on June 23, 1981, in Cereté, Córdoba into a conservative middle-class family, of Syrian origin as a child he was abandoned by his father, for which his mother worked as a single mother, attended the León de Greff school until high school and where he would later graduate, being a member of the Creative Youth Organization group, later he would participate in a television program aimed at young audiences that was broadcast by Telecaribe. Later he graduated in Finance, Government, International Relations, specialist in Contract Law and Business Legal Relations from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Then he would move to Montreal, Canada as a fellow in the Economics and Politics program at the Université de Montreal