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This article lists political parties in Colombia.
Colombia has historically maintained a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, resulting in considerable difficulty for anybody to achieve major electoral success under the banner of any other party. Dissidents from the two main parties also have chances to win elections. Members of independent parties may be elected to regional or local office and may also win seats in Congress. Nowadays it is a multi-party system.
[edit] The parties
[edit] Major parties
[edit] Minor parties
There were almost 80 parties in Colombia that didn't have representation in the Congress, according to the 1991 constitutional reform to promote minority representation and oust bipartitism. This proved to be counterproductive.
Under the Political Reform of 2002, any party that doesn't get at least 2% of the vote to the Senate or of the electoral quotient to its circumscription to the House of Representatives, is legally dead. This is to promote neater debates and ideologically clear positions in the Congress.
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