United People's Movement (Colombia)
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The United People's Movement (''Movimiento Popular Unido'') is a liberal
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in
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. In the 2002
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on March 10, 2002, the party won, as one of the many small parties, parliamentary representation. In the simultaneous legislative elections of 2006, the party won 2 out of 166 deputies and no senators.


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