The Colombian Congress definitively approves the 'total peace' law to negotiate with armed groups

MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The plenary sessions of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of Colombia have ratified this Thursday the reform of the public order law that provides a legal framework for "total peace" and that allows the Colombian government to dialogue with armed groups.

After being approved in four debates and in its subsequent conciliation, the initiative will pass to presidential sanction to become law, according to 'El Colombiano'.

With this law, the Government of Colombia acquires the powers to negotiate or demobilize armed groups such as the National Liberation Army (ELN) or the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

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'.

However, once the law is sanctioned, the peace talks with the ELN guerrillas will begin and it will be known who will be the representatives of the National Government at the dialogue table, which began during the Executive of Juan Manuel Santos, although they stalled in the administration of Iván Duque, among other things, after the attack on the General Santander Police School in which 22 soldiers died.