Green Party (Colombia)

Green Alliance Alianza Verde
President	Luis Carlos Avellaneda (Co-president) Antonio Sanguino (Co-president)
Founded	2005 (2005)
Headquarters	Bogotá, Colombia
Ideology	Social democracy Green politics Electoral Reform Progressivism
Political position	Centre-left to Left-wing (minority)
Regional affiliation	Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas
International affiliation	Global Greens
Colours	Green
Seats in the Chamber of Representatives	6 / 166
Seats in the Senate	5 / 102
Governors	3 / 32
Mayors	49 / 1,102
Website
www.partidoverde.org.co
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Green Alliance (Spanish: Alianza Verde) is a Colombian political party associated with the philosophies of the Green party and radical centrism. The party advocates for having an ecological conscience, social justice, participative democracy, non violence resolutions, human sustainability and respect for diversity in order to improve the Colombian social, economic and political struggle and bring to an end the Colombian armed conflict. The Party is mostly influenced by the French party "The Greens" and the Global Greens.

The party was founded on November 25, 2005 in Bogotá by a group of people headed by Carlos Ramón González Merchan and Elías Pineda.

For the October 28, 2007 Colombian regional elections to elect department governors, department assembly deputies, mayors and councils and Local Administrative Juntas the party oddly won the governorships of Cesar with candidate Cristian Moreno Panezo and Boyacá with candidate José Roso Millán. The party also obtained 23 Municipal mayors.

Three independent former mayors of Bogota, Luis Eduardo Garzón, Antanas Mockus, and Enrique Peñalosa, formed an alliance to choose an independent candidate for the presidency. However, they required a political structure. The ad-hoc coalition merged with the Centre Option Green Party, which changed its name to Green Party. Following this, the new party joined by many regional politicians.

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