Or, more accurately, is Cambio Radical going home?

According to W Radio, leaders of the PL and CR are planning to meet to discuss a merger.

El Tiempo goes a step farther with a piece called “The Red Resurrection” (La resurrección roja)((Red is the traditional color of the PL.)) which notes that the CR+PL caucus would be a significant one in the Congress.  Although, it should be noted, such a caucus would still be a minority.  Based on the initial seat counts after the election, the new PL would have 52 (36+16) out 166 Chamber seats and 25 (17 PL + 8 CR) out of 102 in the Senate.  This assumes that those numbers ended up being the official ones,¹ and that all of the members of CR make the move.  There are some relatively new rules about changing party labels after an election that I am not as well versed in as I should be, so I am not sure what the exact legal strictures will be.

At the moment the leader of the CR, Germán Vargas Lleras, is the Minister  of the Interior in the Santos administration.  As such, this is unlikely to be an opposition bloc.

I say, btw, that CR is “going home” above because the origins of the CR is as a faction of the PL that broke away in the 2024-2006 period.

1. The Concejo Nacional Electoral still has not published the final official seat counts—aaarrrggh!!! [↩]