The Colombian Liberal Party is a centre to centre-left political party in Colombia. It was founded as a classical liberal party but later developed a more social-democratic tradition,joining the Socialist International in 1999.
The Alternative Democratic Pole is a left-wing political party in Colombia,active from 2005 to the present. In 2022 it was successful at the polls and formed the Government of Colombia.
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego is a Colombian politician and former guerrilla who is the 34th and current president of Colombia since 2022. Upon inauguration,he became the first left-wing president in the recent history of Colombia.
Armando Alberto Benedetti Villaneda is a Colombian politician. He served as Senator of Colombia from 2006 to 2022 and Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2002 to 2006.
Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia is a Colombian politician and Mining Engineer who was the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development from 2016 to 2018. He has also served as Governor of the predominantly Afro-Colombian Department of Chocóin Colombia. Murillo was kidnapped in 2000 and after his release he went into and moved to the United States and only returned to Colombia in 2011. In July 2022,Murillo was nominated by president-elect Gustavo Petro to serve as ambassador to the United States.
Rodrigo Rivera Salazar is a Colombian politician. A lawyer,diplomat,professor and journalist,Rivera served in the Congress first as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives for two terms from 1990 to 1998,and then as Senator of Colombia for two terms from 1998 to 2006,when he retired from Congress to run,ultimately unsuccessfully,for the 2006 Liberal presidential nomination. In 2010,Rivera was appointed Minister of National Defence of Colombia by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón and served until his resignation the following year.
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 25 May 2014. Since no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round,a run-off between the two candidates with the most votes took place three weeks later on 15 June 2014. According to the official figures released by the National Registry office,as of 22 May 2014 32,975,158 Colombians were registered and entitled to vote in the 2014 presidential election,including 545,976 Colombians resident abroad. Incumbent president Juan Manuel Santos was allowed to run for a second consecutive term. In the first round,Santos and Óscar Iván Zuluaga of the Democratic Center were the two highest-polling candidates and were the contestants in the 15 June run-off. In the second round,Santos was re-elected president,gaining 51% of the vote compared with 45% for Zuluaga.
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 27 May 2018. As no candidate received a majority of the vote,the second round of voting was held on 17 June. Incumbent president Juan Manuel Santos was ineligible to seek a third term. Iván Duque,a senator,defeated Gustavo Petro,former mayor of Bogotá,in the second round. Duque's victory made him one of the youngest individuals elected to the presidency,aged 42. His running mate,Marta Lucía Ramírez,was the first woman elected to the vice presidency in Colombian history.
Federico Andrés Gutiérrez Zuluaga is a Colombian politician,civil engineer,who currently serves as the mayor of Medellín,having held this office previously from 2016 to 2019. Before being mayor,he had been a member of the Medellín municipal council from 2004 to 2011. A member of the Creemos Colombia party,Gutiérrez was the candidate for the 2022 Colombian presidential election as the winner of the primary of the conservative Team for Colombia coalition.
Jorge Enrique Robledo Castillo is a Colombian politician,architect,professor,and author. He served as a member of the Senate of Colombia from 2002 until 2022,when he decided to leave his position in congress to pursue the office of president of Colombia,ultimately losing to Gustavo Petro. On 21 June 2023,Robledo announced that he was running for mayor of Bogotáin the October 2023 elections.
Iván Duque Márquez is a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. He was elected as the candidate from the Democratic Centre Party in the 2018 Colombian presidential election. Backed by his mentor,former president and powerful senator Álvaro Uribe,he was elected despite having been relatively unknown a year before the election. He ran on a platform that included opposing Juan Manuel Santos' peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla group. After Duque's term came to an end,he was succeeded by Gustavo Petro on 7 August 2022,after Petro won the runoff round in the 2022 Colombian presidential election.
Humane Colombia,formerly known as the Progressive Movement,is a Colombian left-wing political movement and party founded in 2011 and led by President Gustavo Petro. The youth wing of the party is known as Juventud Humana.
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 29 May 2022,with a runoff on 19 June 2022 as no candidate obtained at least 50% in the first round of voting. Iván Duque,who was elected president in 2018,was ineligible to run due to term limits. Gustavo Petro,a senator,former Mayor of Bogota,and runner-up in the 2018 election,defeated Rodolfo Hernández Suárez,former Mayor of Bucaramanga,in the runoff election. Petro's victory made him the first left-wing candidate to be elected president of Colombia,and his running mate,Francia Márquez,is the first Afro-Colombian elected to the vice-presidency,as well as the second female vice-president overall.
Gustavo Petro assumed office as President of Colombia on August 7,2022. The President has the power to nominate members of his Cabinet at his own discretion,in accordance with the Constitution of Colombia.
Álvaro Leyva Durán is a Colombian lawyer,economist,politician,human rights defender and diplomat. He has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Colombia in the government of Gustavo Petro since 7 August 2022. On 7 February 2024,he was suspended from his ministerial position for three months over an investigation into potential violations of procurement laws.
Soy Porque Somos is a Colombian left-wing political party of Afro-Colombian origin founded on 21 July 2021. It is one of the movements that make up the Historic Pact,a political coalition that led Gustavo Petro to the presidency. The Vice President of Colombia Francia Márquez is the founder and leader of the movement.
The 2022 presidential campaign of Gustavo Petro In 2021,Petro declared that he would be running in the 2022 elections. In September 2021,Petro announced that he would retire from politics if his campaign were not to succeed,stating that he does not intend to be an "eternal candidate". Petro’s campaign platform included promoting green energy over fossil fuels and a decrease in economic inequality. He has promised to focus on climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause it by ending fossil fuel exploration in Colombia. He also pledged to raise taxes on the wealthiest 4,000 Colombians and said that neoliberalism would ultimately "destroy the country". Petro also announced that he would be open to having president Iván Duque stand trial for police brutality committed during the 2021 Colombian protests. Furthermore,he promised to establish the ministry of equality. Following his victory in the Historic Pact primary,Petro selected Afro-Colombian Human Rights and environmental activist and recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize,Francia Márquez,to be his running mate.
The 2018 presidential campaign of Gustavo Petro in 2018,Gustavo Petro was again a presidential candidate,this time getting the second best result in voting counting in the first round on 27 May,and advanced to the second round. His campaign was run by publicists Ángel Beccassino,Alberto Cienfuegos and Luis Fernando Pardo. A lawsuit was filed by citizens against Iván Duque,Petro's right-wing opponent,alleging bribery and fraud. The news chain Wradio made the lawsuit public on 11 July,which was presented to the CNE. The state of the lawsuit will be defined by the Magistrado Alberto Yepes.
The 2010 presidential campaign of Gustavo Petro in 2010,Gustavo Petro was elected presidential candidate,this time obtaining the fourth best result in the vote count in the first round on May 27 with 1,331,267,a sum that was not enough to advance to the second round on June 20.
The 2022 Colombian presidential primaries were a series of public votes held on 13 March 2022. The major political coalitions of Colombia held the primaries to determine their presidential candidates for the 2022 Colombian presidential election that would be held two weeks later.
