Former FARC guerrillas take office at the Colombian Congress

] Farc took a small representation in the Congress of Colombia dominated by the right attached to the new president, Iván Duque in front of the peace agreement that

"Here are, for the first time, five senators and five representatives of the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force, party born with the demobilization and disarmament of the FARC, "said the president at the end of his term, Juan Manuel Santos during the installation of the Parliament of 280 seats that will legislate in the next four ines years.

"The members of the FARC party: now that they have left their weapons, now that they have agreed to offer the truth and welcome us into transitional justice, now that". they swore to respect our Constitution and the norms and principles of our republic: welcome to this temple of democracy! ", adds the president.

The Former Guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces

Of the 10 reserved seats, on the basis of the historical agreement that deeply divided the country, communist veterans occupied only eight. Among them, the former commanders Carlos Antonio Lozada and Pablo Catatumbo

The number two Iván Márquez, former chief negotiator in Cuba, has not taken a stand defending the "disfigurement" of the peace agreement and in solidarity with Jesus Santrich, arrested in Bogota and requested extradition by the United States for drug trafficking.

The FARC had established that Márquez would go to the Senate and Santrich to the Chamber of Deputies. Although both have received their credentials as congressional representatives of the electoral authority, the future of their positions has not yet been defined.

The former guerrilla group appeared at the National Capitol with placards saying "Convergence for Hope".

"Peace opens possibilities for alternative voices in the Congress of the Republic," Lozada told reporters.

FARC members received a warm welcome from the Center. Democratic party of Duke and led by the former president and senator Álvaro Uribe opponent of Santos and the agreement of 2016.

"Congress with people convicted of atrocious crimes, without compensation of the victims, without complying with symbolic and inadequate sanctions.In Colombia, there is a growing criminality and a criminal reorganization of the FARC.

Duke promised to change the agreement reached after four years of negotiations at La Havana on the grounds that he is indulgent with the veterans.