On October 2, 2016, Colombians were called to the polls to decide whether or not to endorse the peace agreement between the State and the FARC guerrillas. The result in which the “No” won was a severe blow to those who believed in the process. who resorted to other constitutional ways to endorse the final text.
Five years later, the country is still debating what happened that day. On the one hand, the Uribistas, who promoted the campaign for citizens to reject the agreement, They pointed out that they were “stolen” because the peace agreement ended up passing through Congress and then reviewed and approved by the Constitutional Court.
On the other hand, those who supported the agreements remember the strategy that Uribe used to get people to vote against what was agreed with the guerrillas.
This Saturday, the senator and presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, who supported the peace agreement, referred to what it meant according to him, that “No” won.
Through his Twitter account, the opposition politician questioned the message sent by the presidential candidate Óscar Iván Zuluaga in which he says that, “Good Colombians, we lost and impunity won.”
“Neither big peace nor small peace, only massacres, assassinations of hundreds of social leaders and ex-combatants; only the dictatorial treatment of youth protest, only hunger, inequality; only business bankruptcy, that is the result of No “Petro said.
And on the occasion of the fifth anniversary, some members of the Democratic Center launched taunts against former president Juan Manuel Santos and against the agreement itself. The first was the maximum leader of the party, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who led the No campaign in 2016.
The former president shared a video in which five statements by Santos that he considers liars are collected. In the first, he says that there would be no impunity for those most responsible for war crimes, “a very sophisticated system of transitional justice was created that experts say is, perhaps, one of the best systems that have been negotiated in the world, “said the then president.
In the second point, Santos says that there would be no free seats for former members of the Farc since they would have to win them in the campaign, which was controversial in the agreements when it was agreed that they would be in Congress for two terms with ten seats (five for House and five for Senate), all this in exchange for their contributions to truth, justice and reparation.
On the third point, former President Santos said that the victims were always going to be defended and helped. For the fourth point, the video includes an address by the former president stating that Colombians should choose at the polls whether or not to support the Havana agreement“I promised you that you would have the last word and it will be,” Santos said at the time.
Finally, in the former president’s last intervention before the UN General Assembly, he said that the war in Colombia had ended, which for Uribe is also a lie. The compilation video accompanied him with a phrase that he used a lot in the campaign and in 2016: “we from We did not tell the truth”.
Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal She retweeted a video also recalling October 2, but 2012 when, according to her, some violent acts took place on the part of the then FARC. The representative to the Chamber of the Democratic Center, Margaret Restrepo, said that “Santos will go down in history for being the president who betrayed the entire Colombian people, only for giving impunity to the FARC bandits. That will be your legacy. They robbed us ”.
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