The President of the Senate it is the highest-ranking office in the Senate of Colombia and the third highest in political level, surpassed only by the Mayor of Bogotá. The President of the Senate is responsible for presiding over, organizing, and leading debates in the Senate. The Colombian legislature establishes that the four majorities in the Senate will have the right to a one-year presidency, beginning the first year of the four-year term with a member of the party or political coalition to which the president belongs and ending with a member of the majority opposition force in the last year of the corresponding term.
All Senate presidents have belonged to a political party or faction; only two have not completed their one-year presidential term, and three have served two terms respectively.