Antonio Navarro Wolff | |
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Senator of Colombia | |
In office 20 July 2014 – 20 July 2018 | |
In office 20 July 2002 – 20 July 2006 | |
Governor of Nariño | |
In office 1 January 2008 – 1 January 2012 | |
Preceded by | Eduardo Zúñiga Erazo |
Succeeded by | Raúl Delgado Guerrero |
Member of the Chamber of Representatives for Bogota | |
In office 20 July 1998 – 20 July 2002 | |
Mayor of Pasto | |
In office 1 January 1995 – 1 January 1998 | |
Preceded by | Eduardo Romo Rosero |
Co-President of the Constituent Assembly of Colombia | |
In office 15 January 1991 – 4 July 1991 Serving with Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and Horacio Serpa Uribe | |
Succeeded by | Jimmy Pedreros Narváez |
Minister of Health of Colombia | |
In office 7 August 1990 – 26 October 1991 | |
President | César Gaviria |
Preceded by | Eduardo Díaz Uribe |
Succeeded by | Camilo González Posso |
Personal details | |
Born | Antonio José Navarro Wolff 9 July 1948 Pasto, Nariño, Colombia |
Political party | Alternative Democratic Pole Green Party (Since 2015) |
Other political affiliations | M-19 Democratic Alliance (1990-2005) |
Spouse(s) | Amparo Erazo (-divorced) Marcela Bustamante Morón (1994-present) |
Children | Camilo Navarro Erazo Gabriel Navarro Bustamante Alejandro Navarro Bustamante |
Alma mater | University of Valle (BSE, 1972) Loughborough University (MIE, 1975) |
Profession | Engineer |
Military service | |
Allegiance | M-19 |
Years of service | 1980-1990 |
Rank | Commandant |
Battles/wars | Colombian conflict |
Antonio José Navarro Wolff (born 9 July 1948) is an engineer, a former combatant and a Colombian politician.
Navarro used to be a former Commandant and leader of the 19th of April Movement (M-19), a former guerrilla movement that operated in Colombia in the 1970s and 1980s. After the demobilization through a peace agreement of the M-19, Navarro and others formed the M-19 Democratic Alliance, a political party of which Navarro became a leader of entering mainstream politics in Colombia. In 1990 he ran as a M-19 political candidate during the Colombian presidential elections finishing third and receiving 12.48% of the votes; he ran again unsuccessfully in the 1994 presidential election, and attempted to run for the 2006 presidential elections but lost the candidacy of his party during the primaries. In 1991 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, of which became Co-President along with Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and Horacio Serpa Uribe; it was this Assembly that drafted the Colombian Constitution of 1991 which remains the supreme law of the country.
Navarro has also served in Congress, being elected to serve both in the Chamber from 1998 to 2002, and the Senate from 2002 to 2006 and again since 2014; and elected Mayor of Pasto serving from 1995 to 1998, and Governor of Nariño from 2008 to 2012.