Noemi Sanin

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Noemi Sanin Posada (Born June 6, 1949) is a Colombian politician and former presidential candidate. She is the current ambassador of Colombia in Spain.

[edit] Political Career

In the 1990s she served as Colombia's first female foreign minister. In the 1998 presidential elections, Sanin did surprisingly well, receiving about 27% of the vote, to finish third behind leaders Horacio Serpa and Andres Pastrana, who each received about 35% in the first round. Running on an anti-unemployment campaign, Sanin in fact won the largest amount of votes in the cities of Bogotá and Medellín, but fared poorly in the countryside [1].

In 2002, she ran again for president, this time as a member of her own Yes Colombia party. With national security overriding the other issues in the campaign, she did far worse than in 1998 and received only 5.8% of the vote.

In 2003, Sanin became Colombia's Ambassador to Spain. She decided not to run for the 2006 Colombian presidential elections.