| Mauricio Gómez Amín | |
| Occupation: | Politician, lawyer |
| Party: | Colombian Liberal Party |
| Education: | Universidad del Norte |
| Birth Date: | 26 September 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Barranquilla, Colombia |
| Office: | Senator of the Republic of Colombia |
| Term Start: | July 20, 2018 |
| Office1: | Member of the Colombian House of Representatives |
| Termstart1: | July 20, 2014 |
| Termend2: | July 20, 2018 |
Mauricio Gómez Amín (born September 26, 1981) is a Colombian lawyer, politician and a member of the Liberal Party.
He has served as councilman of Barranquilla between 2004 and 2007, twice councilman of Barranquilla between 2008 and 2013, Representative to the House for the Department of Atlántico 2014 – 2018, and is currently Senator of the Republic of Colombia and spokesman of the bench in the Senate.[1]
He had the honor of being head of the list at the national level in the senatorial elections for the Liberal Party. This is the first time that a young man from the Caribbean Region assumes this important distinction.
Mauricio Gómez Amin studied high school at Marymount School in the city of Barranquilla and his university career at the Universidad del Norte, obtaining a law degree and a specialist in public law.[2]
Along with his university studies, Gómez Amin began his public career at the age of 24 as a councilman in the city of Barranquilla. Later, he was councilman of Barranquilla on two occasions, and in this position he supported the construction of steps and roads for the health system of the city and the mega-schools in the five localities.[3]
In the 2014 Colombian legislative elections, Mauricio Gómez, was elected member of the Colombian House of Representatives for the department of Atlántico, and in that capacity, he led the political control debates that forced the National Government to take the decision to intervene the inefficient company Electricaribe.[4] He is a member of Commission III of Economic Affairs and of the Commission of Territorial Planning.[5]