Colombia Justa Libres ( en, Colombia Fair Free) is a Colombian

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founded in 2017, that politically groups the majority of

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denominations in the country, such as

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, Peace Mission to the Nations, Spring of Eternal Life, among others. During the

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, four of its members were elected to the Congress of Colombia. Ahead of the 2022 legislative election, the party formed the Nos Une Colombia coalition with the MIRA.

Ideology

The party adheres to

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in the

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framework.

History

Colombia Justa Libres (in English, ''Fair Free Colombia'', CJL) emerged from a merger of two political movements: * Libres, a movement that had already participated in the 2015 Colombian regional and municipal elections, launched a list to the Bogotá City Council with Ricardo Arias Mora, leader of the movement, as a candidate for Mayor of Bogotá. Arias obtained around 100,000 votes. In addition, he presented the project of the ministry of the family to Former President Juan Manuel Santos, after the plebiscite on the Colombian peace accords of 2016. The list to the

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city council managed to obtain over 70,000 votes and got a representative: Emel Rojas. * Colombia Justa began when Pastor Héctor Pardo of the ''Tabernáculo de la Fe'' Church, Pastor Eduardo Cañas of the Manantial de Vida Church and Pastor John Milton Rodríguez of the Misión Paz a las Naciones Church participated in the peace dialogues between the Santos government and the FARC. After the meetings, they became disenchanted with participating in the dialogues, claiming that it "facilitated" the FARC's access to power. The three pastors invited more leaders from Colombia. Four national and more than seventy regional calls were made to communicate with victims of the armed conflict, military, Afro-descendants and indigenous peoples, founding ''Colombia Justa''. ''Colombia Justa'' and ''Libres'' subsequently constituted to be a significant group of citizens: ''Colombia Justa Libres'' on 11 December 2017. In the

, it managed to obtain 431,506 votes, 3%, which is necessary to constitute itself as a political party, achieving three senators and one representative. During the 2019 local elections, they supported the then-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay and managed to obtain two seats in the Bogotá council. In 2021, differences between the leadership of the party occurred upon the resignation of Pastor Eduardo Cañas and the designation, which meant his position was replaced by another of the directors: John Milton Rodríguez, a thing that was against the statutes of the party, as who should choose the replacement was the Council of Elders of the party. Subsequently, Rodríguez as the presidential candidate of the party, with the permission of the party Supervisor Héctor Pardo, since he is not officially opposed, holds a parallel assembly designating himself as the presidential candidate of the party, to which the other members oppose, mainly Ricardo Arias who was also the presidential candidate of the party, even the Pardo supervisor, who then resigns from office, and Arias leads a lawsuit for this fact, before the Electoral Council.

Representatives

Council of Bogotá

* Emel Rojas Castillo * Marco Acosta Rico

House of Representatives

* Representative for Bogotá: Carlos Eduardo Acosta Lozano

Senate of the Republic

* John Milton Rodríguez * Edgar Enrique Palacio

Election results

Legislative elections

Religious sector coalition

In September 2021, the directors and congressmen of Colombia Justa Libres made an agreement with the MIRA party to present joint lists to the Senate and the Chamber in more than 7 departments or constituencies, calling it the Nos Une Colombia coalition. It seeks to promote and defend religious freedom in Colombia by means of elected congressmen.

References

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* {{Authority control Political parties established in 2017 Protestant political parties Protestantism in Colombia Christian democratic parties in Colombia