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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 16 February 2018

COLOMBIA: Are electoral threats diminishing?

The risk of electoral fraud and influence of illegal armed groups on Colombia’s upcoming congressional and presidential elections in March and May respectively is down by more than a third on four years ago, according to a report just published by the local NGO Misión de Observación Electoral (MOE). The number of municipalities deemed by the MOE to be at “extreme risk”, however, is up. The report was published shortly before the presidential candidate of the Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Común (Farc), ‘Timochenko’ (Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri), suspended campaigning alleging a lack of “security guarantees”, and guerrillas in the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) staged a series of attacks during a four-day ‘armed strike’.

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