Gustavo Petro signs the 'total peace' law that will allow him to dialogue with armed groups

MADRID, 5 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has signed this Friday the so-called 'total peace' law that allows the Colombian government to dialogue with armed groups, all this one day after Congress approved it definitively in both chambers.

In this way, the regulation that allows negotiations with those "outside the law" has been renewed, and that will serve as a legal framework to negotiate or demobilize armed groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN) or the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

"There will be people who will negotiate with the government the options to end an insurgent war for many decades, which must definitely end without echoes so that Colombian society is the true owner of the country (...) the real and peaceful democracy that we need So the Law is signed," Petro said in an act in which he signed the measure, according to a statement from the Presidency.

In addition, the Colombian president has stressed that through the application of this norm "there will be people who will negotiate with the justice system the possibility of a peaceful dismantling of crime."

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, proposed during his electoral campaign for the Presidency to implement a "total peace" that promotes the start of peace talks with armed and political organizations and ends "the bloodbath" to which he would have been subjected the country for more than 50 years, has collected 'El Tiempo'.