Colombia voters reject FARC peace plan: near-full results
Source: AFP
Bogota (AFP) - Colombian voters rejected a peace deal with communist FARC rebels Sunday, near-complete referendum results indicated, unexpectedly blasting away what the government hoped would be a historic end to the 52-year conflict.
Reversing the trend of earlier opinion polls, voters appeared to have narrowly defied the government's pleas for a new era of peace in the South American country.
They voted 50.23 percent to 49.76 percent against the accord, with more than 99 percent of the votes counted, according to official results published online by electoral authorities.
Supporters of the accord had expected it to effectively end what is seen as the last major armed conflict in the Western hemisphere.
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muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)If he sticks to his word about there being no plan B, the bilateral ceasefire will be lifted and the war will resume, our correspondent says.
Opposition to the peace accord was led by influential former President Alvaro Uribe. He argued that the government was treating Farc too leniently.
He said that if the 'no' vote prevailed, the government should go back to the negotiating table.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37537252
Voting for potenial fighting seems dumb to me.
forest444
(5,902 posts)But with friends like these, who needs enemies.
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/aug/02/world/fg-drugprez2
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)cstanleytech
(26,298 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)They don't want the results to differ too widely from the polls.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.nacion.com/mundo/latinoamerica/colombianos-mantiene-apoyo-acuerdos-encuesta_0_1585641499.html&prev=search
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)What do they want... never-ending war with the FARC?