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The former FARC guerrilla group took a small representation in the Colombian Congress, dominated by the right wing of the new president, Ivn Duque, who opposed the agreement of peace that ended half a century of armed conflict. "For the first time, here are five senators and five representatives of the Commonwealth External Revolutionary Alternative, born with the demobilization and disarmament of the FARC," said the late President, Juan Manuel Santos, at the meeting. the installation of the Parliament of
But of the 10 reserved seats, on the basis of the historic agreement that deeply divided the country, the former communist ex-combatants occupied only eight seats. Among them, former commanders Carlos Antonio Lozada and Pablo Catatumbo.
Number two Ivn Mrquez, former chief negotiator in Cuba, did not take a position in disfiguring the peace agreement and in solidarity with Jess Santrich, arrested in Bogot and asked for extradition of the United States for drug trafficking.
The FARC had established that Mrquez would go to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies of Santrich.
The former guerrilla group appeared in the National Capitol with signs that said "Convergence for Hope", in an alliance reference that
"Peace opens up opportunities to reach to alternative voices in the Congress of the Republic, "Lozada's press said.
FARC members received a warm welcome from the Democratic Center, Parti de Duque and led by former president and Senator Alvaro Uribe, an opponent of Santos and the 2016 agreement.
"Congress with people convicted of atrocious crimes, without repairing the victims, without carrying out symbolic and inadequate sanctions."
Duke promised to change the agreement reached after four years of negotiations in Havan to be considered indulgent with ex-combatants.
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