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Andean Group - March 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
Colombia’s legislative election sends nuanced message
On the face of it, the results of the 9 March legislative elections in Colombia look positive for President Juan Manuel Santos’s bid for re-election in May, which he argues is needed to finalise a historical peace deal with the country’s main leftist guerrilla group, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). Santos’s Partido de la U (PU) was the most voted party, while the other members of the Unidad Nacional ruling coalition performed well enough to ensure that a second Santos administration would continue to have a comfortable majority in both houses of congress. But the results also saw the new conservative right-wing opposition party set up by former president, Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010), Centro Democrático (CD), emerge as a force to be reckoned with, raising questions as to whether a peace deal with the Farc on the terms being negotiated by the Santos government would have an overwhelming level of public support.
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