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Char Clan and Radical Change Risk Their Power with a New Electoral Bet

Summary by El Pais
Since 1991, in all the legislative elections in Colombia there has been a member of the Char family among the candidates. There are 36 years in which this family group, based in Barranquilla and also known as a powerful business ‘clan’, mobilized tens of thousands of votes to secure a curul in Congress. This year, the symbolic absence of this surname implies a risky bet for his right-wing party, Radical Change, which by March 8 does not have a p…

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Char Clan and Radical Change Risk Their Power with a New Electoral Bet

Since 1991, in all the legislative elections in Colombia there has been a member of the Char family among the candidates. There are 36 years in which this family group, based in Barranquilla and also known as a powerful business ‘clan’, mobilized tens of thousands of votes to secure a curul in Congress. This year, the symbolic absence of this surname implies a risky bet for his right-wing party, Radical Change, which by March 8 does not have a p…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Friday, February 27, 2026.
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