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Ex-guerrillas battle low support in Colombia election
Ex-FARC Comunes party must secure 750,000 votes to maintain political status amid public distrust and opposition nearly a decade after 2016 peace accords.
- Sandra Ramirez, formerly known as Griselda Lobo or Wolf, a left-wing guerrilla leader, has been a Colombian senator since 2018 without winning a single vote.
- After more than half a century of trying to seize power by force, ex-guerrillas-turned-politicians from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia will have to win votes in elections.
- The ex-guerrilla party Comunes needs at least 750,000 votes out of 41 million to continue as a recognized political party amidst tension with opponents of the peace deal.
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For the first time since the 2016 peace agreement, the party that emerged from the former Farc is facing the ballot boxes without guaranteed seats. Its political survival is being played this Sunday. The Comunes party, heir to the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is running for the general elections in an unprecedented configuration. The peace agreement granted it until then a [...] The article The election test for the former Colo…
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