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Next Sunday, March 12, 2006, there will be general elections
for Congress. There is a website by the country's electoral
authority where they show an example of a voting sheet at <www.registraduria.gov.co>.
This image includes all current political parties that have
candidates for Congress (both Senat and House of
Representatives). There you will find logos of each political
party/movement.
E.R., 9 March 2006
The following list of Political Parties is based on the last
elections results of 2006 and thus states the official list of
legal political parties in Colombia (based on the Registraduría Nacional
del Estado Civil and the Consejo
nacional Electoral, through Resolution No. 1057 of July 13,
2006). It is also worth mentioning that all other movements that
call themselves parties are not since they did not achieve the
minimun number of votes to either have a candidate take office on
any given government post or the minimum number of votes to be
recognized as a party by the new Colombian law.
The list (in no particular order of importance or foundation
date) with official websites (when available):
- Movimiento MIRA (Movimiento Independiente de Renovación
Absoluta) <www.webmira.com>.
- Movimiento ALAS-Equipo Colombia <www.equipocolombia.org>.
- Movimiento Alianza Social Indígena.
- Movimiento Apertura Liberal <www.aperturaliberal.com>.
- Movimiento AICO (Autoridades Indígenas de Colombia).
- Movimiento Colombia Viva <www.movimientocolombiaviva.org>.
- Movimiento Político Afrounincca.
- Partido Cambio Radical Colombiano <partidocambioradical.org>.
- Partido Colombia Democrática <www.colombiademocratica.com>.
- Partido Conservador Colombiano.
- Partido Convergencia Ciudadana <www.convergencia.org.co>.
- Partido Liberal Colombiano.
- Partido Opción Centro.
- Partido Social de Unidad Nacional <www.partidodelau.com>.
- Polo Democrático Independiente.
E.R., 16 October 2006
The Law which regulates the actions of Political Parties is
called Ley 974 of July 22, 2005, known as Ley de Bancadas (Bench
Law, referring to the seat or bench each party occupy in
Congress).
Some of the most important rulings are:
- Seats in Congress belong to Parties, not Individuals (thus if a
Congressman retires from his party, he cannot affiliate his
candidacy/term with another party)
- A Congressman cannot vote against the majority of the Party's
decision (unless citing special motives, such as conscious
objection, religious, moral or welfare issues.
- Members from a political movement that lost its legal
representation for not having enough votes, cannot subscribe
their names in a legal represented party that obtained the valid
number of votes to be recognized as a party.
- Parties and movements that lost its legal representation due to
low number of votes can merge with other parties and abide by the
current law.
E.R., 25 December 2006
Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil and the Consejo
nacional Electoral, through Resolution No. 1050 of July 10, 2006,
determines the proceedings to terminate all other political
movements and parties that did not achieve the minimun number of
votes.
E.R., 15 July 2007
