Liberal Force (Spanish : Fuerza Liberal, FL) is a centre-right political party in Venezuela. It was founded in 2003 by Haydée Deutsch. [1]
The party's first electoral test was the 2004 regional elections, in which it received only obtained 2,854 votes (0.04%). In the 2005 parliamentary elections the party received only 644 votes for the National Assembly elections, but received 8,902 votes (0.30%) in the vote for the Andean Parliament.
It was part of the National Unity coalition that supported runners-up Manuel Rosales in the 2006 presidential elections. In 2007 the party joined the People's Alternative Directory alliance alongside Independent Solidarity , the Republican Movement and Emerging Vision .
In the 2010 parliamentary elections the party received 14,547 votes (0.13%) in the party list vote and 27,535 votes (0.17%) in the constituency vote, but again failed to win a seat. It was part of the Democratic Unity Roundtable alliance that supported runners-up Henrique Capriles in the 2012 presidential elections.
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Union for Peru is a Peruvian political party founded by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, an ex-UN Secretary General, in 1994 to run for the presidency of Peru in the 1995 general elections. Originally a social democratic party, the party became the main political home of the Peruvian ethnocacerist movement in the late-2010s after a group led by former Army Major Antauro Humala joined the party. Humala later formed the Patriotic Front in 2018 and contested the 2021 general elections.
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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.
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