Soledad Tamayo Tamayo

Born in Palermo, Paipa, Boyacá, she is the sister of politicians Fernando Tamayo Tamayo and Helio Rafael Tamayo Tamayo. She joined the Conservative Party at a very young age. She studied law at the Universidad Santo Tomás and specialized in social policy at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.^[2]

Her career as a politician began as a police inspector in Bogotá between 1983 and 1985.^[1] Between 1986 and 1994 she was advisor of the district cadastre in the mayor's office of Andrés Pastrana.^[1] In 1995 she was councilor of Bogotá until 2011 where she was president of the Council in 2009–2010.^[1] In 2018 she aspired to be senator of the republic in 2018, in which she was not elected.^[1] She was substitute senator in two periods: 2018 and 2021–2022 for the deaths of Fernando Tamayo Tamayo Tamayo and Eduardo Enríquez Maya. In 2022 she was elected by popular vote.^[3][4]

• "Soledad Tamayo Tamayo | Perfil congresista". Congreso Visible (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-12.