Colombia’s business leaders agree with FARC on constituent assembly to seal peace deal
Colombia’s business leaders agree with FARC on constituent assembly to seal peace deal
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Aug 18, 2015
Colombia’s business leaders agree with rebel group FARC that the best way to seal a possible peace deal with the government would be through a National Constituent Assembly rather than Congress. The FARC has been engaged in peace talks with the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos since November 2012.
The guerrillas have since the early stages of these talks said that if a peace agreement is reached, the constitutional amendments coming from this accord should be approved through a National Constituent Assembly.
The government, however, has long preferred a referendum and the president last week introduced the possibility of having the deal approved by a “mini Congress.”
But with Congress enjoying hardly any confidence due to widespread corruption, business leaders overwhelmingly took sides with the rebels, according to Datexco.
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