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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Barguil and the second or maternal family name is Assis.

David Barguil
Senator of Colombia
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 July 2026
In office 20 July 2018 – 20 July 2022
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
In office 20 July 2010 – 20 July 2018
Constituency	Córdoba
President of the Conservative Party
In office 27 August 2014 – 27 December 2016
Preceded by	Ómar Yepes
Succeeded by	Hernán Andrade
Personal details
Born	David Alejandro Barguil Assis (1981-06-23) 23 June 1981 Cereté, Córdoba, Colombia
Party	Conservative (2010-present)
Spouse	María Paz Gaviria ​ ​ (m. 2016; div. 2018)​ María Victoria Ramírez ​ ​ (m. 2019)​
Children	1
Education	Universidad Externado de Colombia
Website	Senate website

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

On 20 October 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 23 June 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