Ruler · 1951 – present

Juan Manuel Santos

Born 1951, living; politician. President of Colombia (Colombia), 2010 – 2018.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: since 1951; living
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Colombia
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Colombia

Colombia · the 67th of 70 dated reigns · 1812 – 2026

63 before

Carlos Lemos Simmonds1998

Andrés Pastrana Arango1998 – 2002

Álvaro Uribe2002 – 2010

Juan Manuel Santos2010 – 2018

Iván Duque2018 – 2022

Gustavo Petro2022 – 2026

Abelardo de la Espriella2026 – …

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 2010 – 2018 · 8 years · came to it aged 59

Came to it: elected
Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

In 2010, Santos won the presidential election as the protégé of Uribe.

Santos left office with one of the lowest levels of popular approval ever, and his successor was Uribe's new protégé, Iván Duque, a moderate critic of Santos' peace treaty with the FARC guerillas.

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