Colombia's 10 most corrupt political parties

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema August 15, 2019

Almost 7% of the politicians elected in Colombia’s 2015 local and regional elections have received criminal, disciplinary of fiscal penalties. These are their parties.

1. Conservative Party (7.75% corrupt)


The Conservative Party, Colombia’s defender of traditional ethics and patriotic values, was founded in 1848 in opposition of liberal democracy and continues to undermine it, primarily through corruption.

Of its 2,181 officials who were elected in the 2015 local and regional elections, 169 have since received 210 penalties, according to the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE). True to the party’s anti-democratic origins, the conservatives are Colombia’s most corrupt political party.

2. Liberal Party (7.65% corrupt)


Colombia’s oldest party, the Liberal Party, was once founded to replace post-colonial feudalism with liberal democracy, but has long been the flag-bearer of nepotism and one of the favorite political shields of drug traffickers.

Of its 2,326 officials who were elected in 2015, 178 have received a record total of 219 penalties, according to the MOE. This makes them virtually as much as an insult to democracy as their historically anti-democratic rivals.

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