Weekly Report - 01 September 2016 (WR-16-34)

“Do you support the final accord to end the conflict and the construction of a stable and durable peace?” This will be the question to which Colombian voters will have to respond ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on 2 October when the referendum on the peace deal sealed last week between their government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) is held. On 29 August, Colombia’s lower chamber of congress and senate approved the staging of the referendum after receiving the accords from President Juan Manuel Santos four days earlier.