Progressive Force

The Progressive Force (Spanish: Fuerza Progresista, FP), also known as Progressive Force of Courage (Fuerza Progresista del Coraje), was a conservative political party in Colombia led by Fabio Valencia Cossio.^[1][2]

History

The party first contested national elections in 1991,^[3] when it ran in the October 1991 parliamentary elections, winning one seat in the Senate,^[4] taken by Fabio Valencia Cossio.^[5]

In the 1994 parliamentary elections the party won four seats in the Chamber of Representatives,^[6] with Benjamin Higuita Rivera, Jorge Humberto Tejada Neira and Luis Norberto Guerra Vélez elected in Antioquia. In the Senate elections, Valencia Cossio running on a joint FP–Conservative Party ticket received the second highest personal vote in the country.^[7]

The party retained all four seats in the 1998 parliamentary elections,^[6] with Cossio again the second-highest vote winner in the Senate elections.^[7] In the 2002 parliamentary elections it won a seat in the Senate,^[8] but was reduced to two seats in the Chamber.^[9]

In the 2006 parliamentary elections the party received just 40 votes in the Senate election and lost its parliamentary representation.