Politics of the Amazon

Gustavo Petro took office in Colombia at the beginning of a four-year presidential term in August 2022. He was the country’s first left-winger to take office, and the first to assemble a ruling coalition including his own Pacto Histórico (PH) and an environmentalist party, the Alianza Verde, respectively with 28 and 15 seats in the 188-strong Chamber of Deputies. However, as in the case of the Lula government in Brazil, the balance of power in the Colombian congress is held by a range of smaller right and centre-right parties.