Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation

Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation Movimiento Independiente de Renovación Absoluta
Abbreviation	MIRA
Chairman	Manuel Antonio Virgüez
Secretary-General	Fabián Puentes Sierra
Vice chairwoman	Ana Paola Agudelo García
Founder	Carlos Alberto Baena Alexandra Moreno Piraquive
Founded	26 July 2000 (2000-07-26)
Headquarters	Bogotá, Colombia
Newspaper	Periódico MIRA
Youth wing	MIRA Youths
Ideology	Miraism (official)[1] Communitarianism Social conservatism Christian democracy
Political position	Centre-right
Religion	Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International[2]
National affiliation	Team for Colombia
International affiliation	Asociación Miraismo Internacional (MIA)
Colours	Blue (Pantone 286),[3]   White
Chamber of Representatives	1 / 188
Senate	3 / 108
Governors	0 / 32
Mayors	0 / 1,103
Deputies	8 / 418
Councillors	47 / 12,061
Website
partidomira.com
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The Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (Spanish: Movimiento Independiente de Renovación Absoluta, "MIRA") is a political party in Colombia, founded on March 21, 2000 by 51,095 Colombians led by lawyer and former senator Carlos Alberto Baena and Alexandra Moreno Piraquive. The party also has functions as a non-profit organization. It has representation in the Chamber of Representatives and in the Senate of the Congress of Colombia, and has also participated in the public corporations of Colombia at a regional level, being stated as the eighth-most influential political force in the country.

The party is commonly known in Colombia as "Movimiento MIRA" or just "MIRA". Members and affiliates are known as "Miraists", and their ideology is called Miraism. On a global level, MIRA has been registered with the World Intellectual Property Organization of the United Nations since September 27, 2011. Miraism has presence in many American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, USA, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, as well as in some European countries: the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In Asia, it is present in Japan.

At the elections of 2002 the party won as one of the many small parties parliamentary representation. The MIRA Movement took part in the legislative elections of 2006, in which it won 1 out of 165 deputies and 2 out of 100 senators. In 2018, MIRA took part in the legislative elections, in which it won 1 out of 166 deputies and 3 out of 102 senators. The current party Chairman is Manuel Antonio Virgüez.