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Weekly Report - 15 December 2016 (WR-16-49)

COLOMBIA: Top court approves fast track

Colombia’s constitutional court (CC) has thrown a lifeline to President Juan Manuel Santos by voting by 8-1 that the ‘fast track’ mechanism his government had sought, in order to push through congress constitutional amendments and legislation to enact the peace accord with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) with fewer debates, is valid. An adverse ruling would have dealt a severe blow to the peace process as the protracted debates would have led to a dangerously long limbo.

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