Juan Pablo Gallo
Mayor of Pereira
Assumed office
1 January 2016
Pereira municipal councillor
In office
1 January 2008 – 13 April 2015
Personal details
Born (1979-01-31) 31 January 1979
Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
CitizenshipColombian
Political party"Pereira Cambia"
ResidencePereira
Alma materUniversidad Libre (Colombia) and Eafit University
OccupationEconomist, politician
Websitewww.juanpablogallo.co

Juan Pablo Gallo Maya (born 31 January 1979) is a Colombian economist and politician and former mayor of Pereira since January 2016.[1]

Education, personal life and professional career

Juan Pablo Gallo was born in Pereira in 1979 to Silvio Gallo Santa and Luz Helena Maya. He is married to Lina Marcela Muñetón since.

He studied economics and at the Free University of Colombia and marketing at the Eafit. During his secondary studies, Gallo was interested in politics, and was elected as the spokesperson at school, and as youth municipal mayor (in 2004) while Juan Manuel Arango was Mayor.

Politics career

Juan Began his life as the youth municipal councillor elected with 2,807, and re-elected with 5,841. where he promote the environment and animal wellness. In 2015 Gallo ran for mayor of Pereira winning with 126,075, supported by citizens and partisan coalition.

Acknowledgments

On 28 March 2019, he was invited as a speaker to the Tax and Business Competitiveness forum organized in Ibagué, where authorities met in academic and economic matters.[2] There he presented the public finance plan of his Government plan, in the framework of the recent unemployment figures.[3][4][5][6] In addition to the appearance of the city in the international Doing Business Ranking during his tenure.[7][8]

As Mayor to figure in the top positions of the National Ranking of Mayors, with Alejandro Char, Federico Gutiérrez and Rodolfo Hernández Suárez and Marcos Daniel Pineda.[9][10]

Controversies

He was suspended by Fernando Carrillo Flórez from the public ministry of colombia for three months without the right to remuneration, after he and his Kontacto system[11] were denounced for constraining the voter by the engineer Luis Carlos Rúa, who show before the Attorney General of Colombia and to the “Procuraduría General de la Nación” which prevented him from finishing his term as mayor of the city.[2][3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Juan Pablo Gallo Maya es el nuevo alcalde de Pereira". www.wradio.com.co (in Spanish). 25 October 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Juan Pablo Gallo gave a lecture in Ibagué". www.wradio.com.co (in Spanish). 25 October 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Pereira stopped being an example of unemployment". www.wradio.com.co (in Spanish). 25 October 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Pereira stopped being an example of unemployment" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Pereira the second city with the lowest unemployment in the country" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "Pereira consolidates its position as the city with the highest transparency in processes of recruitment" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  7. ↑ "Doing business is easier in Manizales, Pereira" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  8. ↑ "The most attractive capitals for doing business nationwide" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  9. ↑ "Survey Mayors 2018".
  10. ↑ "The mayor of Pereira was elected as the second best leader of the country" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  11. ↑ "They discover an application to guarantee votes for the Mayor of Pereira". Caracol Radio (in Spanish). 25 October 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
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