Bogota cabinet members resign to join Santos reelection campaign
Bogota cabinet members resign to join Santos reelection campaign
May 26, 2014 posted by Daniel Medendorp
Three Bogota cabinet members surprisingly renounced their positions on Monday to work for the reelection campaign of incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos.
Santos is seeing strong opposition from rival Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who won the first round on Sunday and is now facing the president in a second-round run-off in June.
Earlier Monday, Zuluaga said that if elected he would suspend ongoing peace talks with the FARC on his first day in office. The hardliner demands that the FARC agrees to a unilateral ceasefire and prison sentences for its leaders and those guilty of war crimes.
The president on the contrary wants to continue the negotiations to end 50 years of violence between the guerrilla group and the state, having recently successfully reached point four of the six-point agenda and estimating that peace could be signed before the end of the year.
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