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Under intense rains generated by the hurricane mattew, the Colombians go to the polls electoral to endorse or to push the peace agreement back signed on Monday, the 26th of September in Cartagena, between the Colombian government and members of the militias of the FARC. One hopes that more than 34.8 million suitable Colombians to vote should come to 11.034 positions of voting installed in the country, from 11:00 GMT until 21:00 GMT. It is believed that to validate the plebiscite it is necessary to overcome 13 % of the active electoral population, approximately 4.5 million votes.
The signed agreement consists of 297 pages and of being approved there will be delivered in already established phases almost 14.000 rifles and guns belonging to 5800 members of the FARC in 27 sectors. The question of the plebiscite prays of the following way:
“do you support the final agreement on the completion of the conflict and the construction of a stable and lasting peace?”
the options to be answered are "yes" or "not"
source: National Registration of the Civil State (RNEC)
• the peace for the Colombian government.
for the Colombian government to achieve the peace match, is not a strategy, for them it is the most important thing that has happened in the last years during the search of the peace. In words of the chancellor Holguin:
“to leave behind 52 years of war, of violence, of destruction of a country is a joy motive; it finishes this absurd war, which is undoubtedly the center of attention for the whole world and more in the United Nations which meaning of life is the peace and the safety of the world”
(Maria Angela Holguin – Chancellor of Colombia).
This agreement is the fruit of 4 years of intense negotiations materializing in cartagena the night of Monday, the 26th of September, in a solemn meeting at which there were present more than one dozen of heads of state of Latin america, the emeritus king of Spain and the secretary of the state of USA, John Kerry. For many persons this advance is one more sample of that the conflicts do not solve with the weapon, but with the dialogue and the intelligent politics, the history is making way demonstrating that the dialogue must be a length and laying for benefit of the people.
• The peace for the FARC.
As for the FARC this agreement brings to them many benefits, for saying something, since they will not be penalized straight because they will be realized special judgments to investigate, to judge and to sanction its actions; but skylight all this fastened to which they must give full collaboration or otherwise they will receive sorrow of up to 20 years of jail. It is necessary to emphasize that it is asked these militias who must repair the damages to its victims.
Although many persons in the opposing ambience to this agreement ask that there should not be left they unpunished and the maximum sorrow should be applied to them, for what in fact one looks is that they join the society and leave the footpath of the crime. The agreement meditates that the ancient members of the FARC have representation in the senate and the representatives' camera what would be 5 % and 3 % respectively, in addition to 16 peace districts in the states where towards life the armed group. The party that would be shaped by the FARC would not have any privilege and it would be just as any other political party. With regard to since to repair the damages to the victims the FARC expressed a bulletin where a war economy declares before the government what they call, with what they think about how to obtain the resources necessary for the victims of the armed conflict.
• Conclusion.
As peace process supports the different methods used for achieving this peace, now there are different positions concerning this topic, but it is the people who decides which it is the way to continue the form in as this is carried out, taking into consideration all the details, because many topics both in the international and national ambience, of the military side and of the civil side.
Also not only it is necessary to repair the fatal victims, but also to more than 7 million wrongly placed interns who fled of the areas in conflict. Of be approving this agreement, thing that it should to be like that, Colombia would stop having a big expense in military matter that would allow to the shift government to tackle the correlative with the social expenses of the Colombian population and to contribute solutions on the subject of health, work, education and quality services. It is necessary to think that many persons around of the world have understood that the best form of survival is the PEACE.