Alternative Democratic Pole

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Alternative Democratic Pole Polo Democrático Alternativo
President	Alexander López Maya
Senate leader	Iván Cepeda Castro
Founded	December 2005; 18 years ago (2005-12)
Merger of	Independent Democratic Pole Democratic Alternative
Headquarters	Bogotá, Colombia
Ideology	Social democracy[1][2] Progressivism Protectionism
Political position	Left-wing[3][4][5][6]
National affiliation	Historic Pact for Colombia
Regional affiliation	São Paulo Forum
Colours	Yellow
Chamber of Representatives	9 / 188
Senate	6 / 108
Website
www.polodemocratico.net
Politics of Colombia Political parties Elections

The Alternative Democratic Pole (Spanish: Polo Democrático Alternativo or PDA) is a left-wing political party in Colombia,^[7] active from 2005 to the present. In 2022 it was successful at the polls and formed the Government of Colombia.

It was founded as a political alliance of the Independent Democratic Pole (PDI) and the Democratic Alternative (AD) in December 2005. Both parties opposed the neoliberal economic program, securitization and militarization of Colombia under then-President Álvaro Uribe.^[6] Subsequently, it was the only parliamentary party to declare opposition to the government of Juan Manuel Santos, and then joined the opposition against the government of Ivan Duque.

As of 2009, a considerable number of PDA politicians were still former guerrilla fighters who gave up armed struggle and demobilized during the late 1980s and early 1990s.^[8] And by 2012, a considerable part of PDA politicians including the former guerrilla fighters were more alligned with the Green Party,^[9] the Movimiento Progresistas,^[10] or Marcha Patriótica,^[11] than the PDA.