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Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation Movimiento Independiente de Renovación Absoluta | |
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Abbreviation | MIRA |
Chairman | Manuel Virgüez Piraquive |
Secretary-General | Fabián Puentes Sierra |
Vice chairwoman | Ana Paola Agudelo García |
Founder | Carlos Alberto Baena Alexandra Moreno Piraquive |
Founded | 26 July 2000 |
Headquarters | Bogotá, Colombia |
Newspaper | Periódico MIRA |
Youth wing | MIRA Youths |
Ideology | Christian democracy Social conservatism Communitarianism |
Political position | Centre-right |
Religion | Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International[1] |
National affiliation | Team for Colombia |
International affiliation | Asociación Miraismo Internacional (MIA) |
Colours | Blue (Pantone 286),[2] 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 | |
The Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (Spanish: Movimiento Independiente de Renovación Absoluta, "MIRA") is a political party in Colombia, founded in 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, 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.