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The 2014 national elections mark a drastic departure for Colombian political dynamics as a new intra-elite division emerged during the campaign that further shook the nation's traditional two party system. Fractures in the party system emerged partly due to the personalized political ambitions of key players and over the substantive issue of how best to end the longstanding conflict between the Government and the leftist guerrilla group known as the FARC. The contests saw the traditional Conservative (PC) and Liberal (PL) parties fighting hard to defend their longstanding dominance against newly branded contenders from both the left and right of the ideological spectrum. Competition from the left had occurred before, but in 2014 competition from but the right emerged with the presence of a strong opposition led by former president Alvaro Uribe, a one-time affiliate of PL who defected to create Centro Democratico (CD) because of disagreements over making peace with the FARC. When the ballots had been counted, Unidad Nacional's Juan Manuel Santos was reelected as President and the Legislature was composed mostly by the Unidad Nacional coalition (Partido Social de Unidad Nacional, PL and Cambio Radical) which was able to secure 45% of the seats in the Senate and 49% of the seats in the House. The main opposition should come from the CD and PC which jointly amass 37% of the seats in the Senate and 29% of the seats in the House. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

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