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Elections in Colombia are regulated and controlled by the National Electoral Council which provides information on elections and election results in for the politics of Colombia. Colombia elects on national level a head of state — the president — and a legislature. The president is elected for a four-year term by the people.
The Team for Colombia Coalition (Spanish: Coalición Equipo por Colombia) is a coalition of centre-right and right-wing politicians. Five pre-candidates announced that they would be standing for election as the unified presidential candidate for the coalition. The candidate was chosen by public vote on 13 March 2022. [41]
The 2023 Colombian regional and municipal elections were held on 29 October 2023. [ 1 ] 32 governors and departmental assemblies and 1,102 mayors were elected. [ 2 ]
With the constitution of 1886 came a return to election of the President of the Republic of Colombia (from 1892 to 1904) via the aforementioned electoral college system. In 1910, the Constituent Assembly that amended the constitution chose the president, and decreed that from 1914 elections would again be via universal vote.
Allies of President Gustavo Petro lost by wide margins in municipal and provincial elections Sunday, in what analysts called a sign of growing discontent with Colombia’s first left-wing government.
Following the electoral triumph of Gustavo Petro in the 2022 Colombian presidential election, Petro's coalition Historic Pact allied with the Liberal Party. The Liberal leader, César Gaviria , assured that the alliance would "allow the president-elect to overcome a political hurdle", which would provide the Historic Pact with less difficulty ...
It's one of the United States' few enduring alliances in an often-turbulent Latin America, one built around a decades-long partnership combating the nation's drug cartels
With the upcoming presidential elections in Colombia, the coffee-producing South American country is more divided every day, demonstrated by the results of the first electoral round on May 29.