Green Party of Colombia Option Center

Green Party of Colombia Option Center (Partido Verde Opción Centro) is a Colombian political party associated with the philosophies of the Green party, the "political middle". The party advocates for having an ecological conscience, social justice, participative democracy, non violence resolutions, human sustainability and respect for diversity in order to improve the Colombian social, economic and political struggle and bring to and end the Colombian armed conflict. The Green Party of Colombia Option Center is mostly influenced by the French party "The Greens" and the Global Greens.

History
The party was founded on November 25, 2005 in Bogotá by a group of people headed by Carlos Ramon Gonzalez Merchan and Elias Pineda, two former members of the demobilized guerrilla 19th of April Movement (M-19).

2007 regional elections
For the October 28, 2007 Colombian regional elections to elect Department governors, Department assembly deputies, mayors and councils and Local Administrative Juntas the party oddly won the governorships of Cesar with candidate Cristian Moreno Panezo and Boyacá with candidate José Roso Millán. The party also obtained 23 Municipal mayors.