Ernesto Macías Tovar

Ernesto Macías Tovar (born June 29, 1955) is a Colombian politician and social communicator. He was councilman of Garzón between 1980 and 1982. In the 2014 legislative elections he was elected Senator of the Republic for the Democratic Center, in this position he took office on July 20, 2014. He was President of the Senate of the Republic from 2018 to 2019.

Biography Ernesto Macias graduated as a social communicator from the Cooperative University of Colombia in 2008, was news director of the Huila radio network, and then manager and general editor of Diario del Huila between 2004 and 2006. Macias Tovar was a columnist of the newspaper El Espectador until 2013. In the government of Álvaro Uribe Vélez he was advisor to the then Minister of Communications María del Rosario Guerra. He was on several occasions governor in charge of the Department of Huila. for the Senate of the Republic of Colombia of the Centro Democrático political movement, headed by former President Álvaro Uribe. This party and Senator Macías have made a strong opposition to the peace talks that took place in Havana, Cuba, between the Colombian State and the FARC- EP.

Macías was ranked fifteenth on said list and was elected senator for the 2014–2018 term. the disbursement of more than $3 billion pesos by President Juan Manuel Santos under the figure of indicative quotas, which according to Macias, are nothing more than the misnamed parliamentary aids that the Constitutional court abolished from the 1991 Political Constitution.