Colombia

POLITICAL PARTY

Centro Democrático – Mano firme, corazón grande
in presidency and parliamentary seats
Colombia
In the March 2022 elections, Democratic Center finished fifth (in terms of seats) in both the House of Representatives (16 seats , or 9.86% of the vote) and in the Senate (14 seats, or 11.85% of the vote). This represented a decline from the 2018 elections, when the party won the most seats in both the House of Representatives (32 seats, or 16.02% of the vote) and in the Senate (19 seats, or 16.41% of the vote). In 2018, Democratic Center's candidate, Iván Duque, won the presidency, and held office until 2022.
November 19, 2025
"We want to ease the security decline."
Party co-founder and leader (2013–present), President of Colombia (2002–2010)
Álvaro Uribe

MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTY MEMBER

Álvaro Uribe
Álvaro Uribe
"We want to ease the security decline, the growing uncertainty of investments, the stagnation of the bureaucratized social policy, the wasteful spending of official resources, and the substitution of popular dialogue for the risk of handing the country over to terrorism and Castro-Chavism."
September 16, 2013

PAGE CITATIONS:

Colombian House of Representatives, March 13, 2022, IFES Election Guide, last updated September 16, 2025, accessed November 19, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3756/.

Colombian House of Representatives, March 13, 2022, IFES Election Guide, last updated June 21, 2024, accessed November 19, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3755/.

Colombian House of Representatives, March 11, 2018, IFES Election Guide, last updated June 21, 2024, accessed November 19, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3197/.

Colombian Senate, March 11, 2018, IFES Election Guide, last updated June 21, 2023, accessed November 19, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3196/.

Colombian Presidency, Round 2, June 17, 2018, IFES Election Guide, last updated June 21, 2024, accessed November 19, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3063/.

QUOTE CITATION:

Álvaro Uribe quoted in "Colombia's Uribe Will Run for Office Again," ABC News, September 18, 2013, abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/ABC_Univision/colombias-uribe-plans-return-politics-shake-things-bigtime/story?id=20295737.

TO CITE:

"Centro Democrático – Mano firme, corazón grande," Great Replacement Parties, ChainofIdeasBook.com, [access date], www.chainofideasbook.com/country/CO.