The Joint First Committees of the Senate and Camera They officially began the discussion of the project that extends the Public Order Law and grants powers to President Gustavo Petro to implement the so-called ‘total peace’.
initiative is essential to advance in the negotiations with the ELN guerrilla and other illegal groups that have a political connotation and that decide to lay down their arms.
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The proposal states that there will be no demilitarized zones, creates the figure of partial agreements that could be implemented as the talks progress, makes clear the differences with the submission to justice of criminal groups and creates a social service for peace as an alternative to compulsory military service.
Senator Ariel Avila I affirm that This project is essential to ensure that Colombia becomes a country of peace. “We cannot be condemned to live in the midst of violence, we do not have to condemn ourselves, there is no divine justice or a legal framework that leads us to it, we can always seek the development of peace in this country and no one can deprive us of the right to live in peace, “he said.
During the discussion, Senator Paloma Valencia, from the Democratic Center, He asked that the project make it sufficiently clear that those people who deserted a peace process cannot return to benefit from the benefits of the law.
“The Clan del Golfo, if it signs an agreement with the Government, half of it could decide to remain in the crime because in the next Government they can rejoin the agreement again, No, that door must remain closed, armored, with a plate and a bar, so that no one who fails to comply with some agreements can try to have a negotiation again”, held.
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The Senator Humberto de la Calle He agreed with the modifications that are being proposed to gradually dismantle compulsory military service.
“Military service must be progressively dismantled to create a social service along the lines of what the project brings, which seems to me to be adequate, but for something deeper and that is that the educational system is separating Colombians”, he indicated.
It is expected that this project will be approved as soon as possible in the Congress of the Republic, taking into account that it is the legal framework to advance in the peace negotiations with the ELN.
