New Liberalism (Colombia)

New Liberalism () is a

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Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

. Originally founded by

Luis Carlos Galán Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento (29 September 1943 – 18 August 1989) was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions, the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he fou ...

in 1979 as a dissident force of the

Colombian Liberal Party The Colombian Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Colombiano; PLC) is a centre to centre-left political party in Colombia. It was founded as a classical liberal party but later developed a more social-democratic tradition, joining the Socialis ...

and dissolved in the 1990s, the party was refounded in 2021 by two of his sons,

Juan Manuel Galán Pachón Juan Manuel Galán Pachón (born 29 July 1972) is a Colombians, Colombian politician, currently serving as Senator of Colombia since 2006. He is the son and political heir of the assassinated political activist, politician, and presidential cand ...

and Carlos Fernando Galán. Running against both the conservatives and the mainstream Liberal Party, Galán lost the elections in 1982. He and his movement officially returned to the Liberal Party in 1987, but several of the members still considered themselves as part of a somewhat distinct entity. Back in the Liberal fold, Luis Carlos Galán appeared as the leading candidate in polls and hoped to be able to win the next presidential elections which would be held in

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. After Galán's assassination in 1989, any remnants of the original party had dissolved by the 1990s. At the

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on 10 March 2002, the party won as one of the many small parties parliamentary representation. Colombia 1979 Political parties established in 1979 1979 establishments in Colombia Radical parties {{Liberalparty-stub