Loading ...Colombia’s congress has approved a law ratifying provisions of a peace agreement that permits the country’s largest leftist guerrilla group, FARC, to participate in politics.
The senate voted 52-2 on Wednesday in favour of the law that provides for the “political reintegration” of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The group’s inclusion as a legal political party was a key point of the peace agreement signed in November between President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC.
The new law guarantees the former guerrillas a minimum of five seats in the senate, and five in the lower house of congress, although the group must run in legislative elections next year to claim them.
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