Progressive Force

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The Progressive Force (Spanish : Fuerza Progresista, FP), also known as Progressive Force of Courage (Fuerza Progresista del Coraje), was a conservative political party in Colombia led by Fabio Valencia Cossio. [1] [2]

History

The party first contested national elections in 1991, [3] when it ran in the October 1991 parliamentary elections, winning one seat in the Senate, [4] taken by Fabio Valencia Cossio. [5]

In the 1994 parliamentary elections the party won four seats in the Chamber of Representatives, [6] with Benjamin Higuita Rivera, Jorge Humberto Tejada Neira and Luis Norberto Guerra Vélez elected in Antioquia. In the Senate elections, Valencia Cossio running on a joint FP–Conservative Party ticket received the second highest personal vote in the country. [7]

The party retained all four seats in the 1998 parliamentary elections, [6] with Cossio again the second-highest vote winner in the Senate elections. [7] In the 2002 parliamentary elections it won a seat in the Senate, [8] but was reduced to two seats in the Chamber. [9]

In the 2006 parliamentary elections the party received just 40 votes in the Senate election and lost its parliamentary representation.

References

  1. ↑ Diana Hoyos Gómez (2007). Entre la persistencia y el cambio: reconfiguración del escenario partidista y electoral en Colombia. p. 46.
  2. ↑ Beltrán Restrepo (2006). Incidencia de la reforma política en el sistema electoral y de partidos colombianos. p. 32.
  3. ↑ Dieter Nohlen (2005). Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook. p. 313.
  4. ↑ Nohlen, p. 346
  5. ↑ Steven Lynn Taylor (2009). Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia. p. 96.
  6. 1 2 Nohlen, p. 343
  7. 1 2 Taylor, p. 121
  8. ↑ Nohlen, p. 348
  9. ↑ Nohlen, p. 344
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