League of Anti-Corruption Governors

League of Anti-Corruption Governors
Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupción
AbbreviationLIGA
PresidentVacant
FounderRodolfo Hernández Suárez
FoundedOctober 2019 (2019-10)
4 August 2022 (2022-08-04) (party)
Preceded byCivic Movement "Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics"
HeadquartersCl. 54 #28 42, Barrio Nuevo Sotomayor, Bucaramanga
Youth wingLIGA Youth[1]
Ideology
Political positionFar-right[A][6]
Chamber of Representatives
3 / 188
Senate
1 / 108
Website
www.soyliga.org
^ A: According to several political analysts and media outlets, the party falls on the far-right of the political spectrum.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Other media outlets described the party as centre-right,[14][15][16] or right-wing.[17]

The League of Anti-Corruption Governors (Spanish: Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupción; LIGA) is a Colombian political movement, created in October 2019 by the former mayor of Bucaramanga, Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, and by the candidates for the 2020–2023 municipal council.[18] It was conceived as an independent civic alternative to traditional political parties and ideologies, with the purpose of reaching the presidency of the republic in the 2022 election.[19] Earlier, in the 2015 local elections, Rodolfo Hernández managed to reach the Mayor's Office of Bucaramanga through an independent candidacy via the "Movimiento Cívico Lógica Etica y Estética", previously founded by Hernández to support his political campaign.[20] In May 2022, Hernández finished in second place in the first round of the presidential elections, proceeding to the second round against Gustavo Petro. He finished in second place in the second round as well.[21][22]

History

Formation and 2022 elections

The League of Anti-Corruption Governors originated from the Civic Movement "Logic, Ethics, and Aesthetics" (Movimiento Cívico Lógica, Ética y Estética), an independent initiative established in 2015 to support civil engineer Rodolfo Hernández Suárez's successful mayoral campaign in Bucaramanga. In October 2019, Hernández formalized the movement alongside candidates for the Bucaramanga municipal council. The movement's platform centered on anti-corruption policies and fiscal austerity, aiming to serve as the political vehicle for his 2022 presidential bid.[23]

For the 2022 Colombian presidential election, the movement registered Hernández and academic Marelen Castillo as his vice-presidential running mate via signature collection. Campaigning heavily on social media under the slogan "Don't steal, don't lie, don't betray" (No robar, no mentir, no traicionar), the ticket advanced to the second round. On June 19, 2022, they were defeated by Gustavo Petro of the Historic Pact for Colombia coalition, receiving over 10.5 million votes.[24]

As the runner-up ticket, the Colombian Opposition Statute granted Hernández a seat in the Senate of Colombia and Castillo a seat in the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia. Following these results, the National Electoral Council (CNE) officially granted the movement legal status (personería jurídica) as a political party on August 4, 2022.[25]

Internal division and 2023 regional elections

In September 2022, a dispute within the party leadership resulted in the exclusion of Castillo and other elected representatives from the party's constituent assembly and foundational statutes.[26]During this period, the party formally declared itself in political opposition to the Petro administration.

Hernández resigned from his Senate seat in October 2022 to campaign for the governorship of Santander Department in the 2023 Colombian regional elections.[27]However, the CNE revoked his candidacy in September 2023 due to three previous disciplinary sanctions issued by the Office of the Inspector General of Colombia, rendering him legally disqualified from holding public office. The party's political director, Camilo Larios, attempted to file legal injunctions (acciones de tutela) to protect Hernández's political rights and suspend the ruling, but the disqualification was upheld.[28]

Hernández's death and reorganization (2024–2026)

On March 14, 2024, Hernández was convicted in the first instance of the crime of undue interest in the celebration of contracts. The conviction was related to the "Vitalogic" case, which involved irregularities in waste management consulting contracts during his mayoral term in Bucaramanga.[29] During the trial hearings, he publicly disclosed a terminal colon cancer diagnosis. Following medical complications, Hernández died on September 2, 2024, at the Hospital Internacional de Colombia in Piedecuesta at age 79, leaving the party without its founder and central figure.[30]

Following Hernández's death, Camilo Andrés Larios Álvarez assumed the national leadership in 2025. The party underwent an internal restructuring, rebranding as a "Citizen Platform" (Plataforma Ciudadana). The organization focused its activities on political education programs and digital citizen oversight initiatives, such as "Legislative Control" (Control Legislativo), to monitor public contracting.[31]

Party status

Hernández submitted an application with the National Electoral Council (CNE) on 19 July 2022 for LIGA to be granted legal status as a political party. In the submission, Hernández emphasised his presidential ticket's second place in the presidential election and how he and Castillo had taken their respective seats in the senate and chamber of representatives reserved for the second place presidential and vice presidential candidates. He also mentioned LIGA's convention, which declared its opposition to the government of Gustavo Petro. The CNE granted legal party status to LIGA on 4 August, and Hernández became the party's president. He appointed his wife, Socorro Oliveros as national director.[32]

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election year Candidate Running mate First round Second round Result
Votes % Votes %
2022 Rodolfo Hernández Suárez Marelen Castillo 5,965,335 28.17 10,580,412 47.31 Lost Red X
Sources: La Registraduria Prensa (First round), Registraduria (Second round) Archived 29 October 2023 at the Wayback Machine

References

  1. ↑ "Convocatoria de jóvenes para participar en las Elecciones de Consejos de juventudes municipales". Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupción - No mentir, No robar, no traicionar! (in Spanish). 12 June 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  2. ↑ López Robles, Adalberto (19 November 2025). "Populismo y campañas políticas: examinando las estrategias populistas en las elecciones colombianas de 2022". Comunicación y Sociedad: 1–26. doi:10.32870/cys.v2025.9037. ISSN 2448-9042.
  3. ↑ Zubiri, Alexander Ugalde; Ozerin, Iratxe Perea (2022). Balances y perspectivas del cumplimiento del Acuerdo de Paz en Colombia (2016-2022). Servicio Editorial = Argitalpen Zerbitzua. ISBN 978-84-1319-503-2.
  4. ↑ Kajsiu, Blendi; Restrepo-Ossa, Ana Maria (12 December 2024). "Las elecciones presidenciales de 2022 en Colombia: el surgimiento de una derecha antipolítica". Desafíos. 36 (2): 1–32. doi:10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.14517. ISSN 2145-5112.
  5. ↑ Rodriguez, Felipe (31 May 2022). "Elecciones presidenciales en Colombia: la hora de la esperanza" [Presidential elections in Colombia: the hour of hope]. Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social (in Spanish). UNLP. Retrieved 3 September 2024. Igualmente, todo parecía indicar que, en esta ocasión, "el que diga Uribe" era el candidato Federico Gutiérrez, quien oficialmente estaba apoyado por el partido uribista Centro Democrático; mientras que otro de los candidatos, que "desprevenidamente" ya había manifestado afectos por Uribe, se mostraba "independiente" y "ajeno al uribismo", era avalado por un partido escoba o "atrapalotodo", denominado Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupción, fundado en 2019 con la finalidad específica de avalar la candidatura presidencial de Rodolfo Hernández (de 77 años), terminó siendo el "as bajo la manga" de Uribe y sus seguidores, con quienes realmente, pero de manera subrepticia, hacía equipo. [Likewise, everything seemed to indicate that, on this occasion, “whoever Uribe says” was the candidate Federico Gutiérrez, who was officially supported by the Uribe party Centro Democrático; while another of the candidates, who “inadvertently” had already expressed affection for Uribe, was “independent” and “foreign to Uribeism”, was endorsed by a broom or “catch-all” party, called the League of Anti-Corruption Governors, founded in 2019 with the specific purpose of endorsing the presidential candidacy of Rodolfo Hernández (77 years old), ended up being the “ace up the sleeve” of Uribe and his followers, with whom he really, but surreptitiously, made a team.]
  6. ↑ Torres, Sofía (20 November 2024). Derechas e izquierdas en el siglo XXI. Debates generales y estudios de caso. Instituto Electoral de Guanajuato - SOMEE - Universidad de Guadalajara. ISBN 978-607-69631-4-2.
  7. ↑ Ramírez Gallegos, René, ed. (2024). Estado de situación de las democracias en América Latina y el Caribe: (narco)neoliberalismo autoritario o democracia con demos. CLACSO Coediciones. Ciudad de Buenos Aires: CLACSO. ISBN 978-987-813-944-9. Tras el análisis de los planes de gobierno y el comportamiento de lxs candidatxs presidenciales ante las demandas feministas (Anexo 1), se destaca, por un lado, la existencia de un bloque de partidos conservadores y de extrema derecha en Argentina (La Libertad Avanza), Brasil (Partido Liberal), Chile (Partido Republicano) y Colombia (LIGA) que se oponen de manera explícita al feminismo y se constituyen en enemigos de la construcción de una democracia feminista.
  8. ↑ Torres, Sofía (20 November 2024). Derechas e izquierdas en el siglo XXI. Debates generales y estudios de caso. Instituto Electoral de Guanajuato - SOMEE - Universidad de Guadalajara. ISBN 978-607-69631-4-2.
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  10. ↑ Romão, Wagner, ed. (20 August 2024). Democracia versus neoliberalismo: Reflexões sobre uma sociedade desigual (in Brazilian Portuguese). São Paulo, SP: Fundação Perseu Abramo. ISBN 978-65-5626-149-2.
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  13. ↑ "IL GIRAMONDO – Domani elezioni in Argentina". Sondaggi Bidimedia - Il Blog (in Italian). 6 March 2026. Retrieved 8 March 2026. Governatori Anticorruzione (in spagnolo : Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupción; LIGA) è un movimento populista di estrema destra attualmente presente in parlamento con 3 deputati e 1 senatore.
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  21. ↑ "La diferencia entre el preconteo y el escrutinio municipal en la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de 2022 fue de tan solo el 0,1 %" (in Spanish). National Registry of Colombia. 1 June 2022. Archived from the original on 7 June 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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