Uribe no longer belongs to coalition party: lawmakers .
Uribe no longer belongs to coalition party: lawmakers .
Saturday, 03 November 2012 09:05 Adriaan Alsema
Three key congressmen of the U Party, once created to support Colombia's then-President Alvaro Uribe, said Friday that the increasingly critical former head of state no longer belongs to the party.
In interviews with Caracol Radio, Senators Roy Barreras and Armando Benedetti members of the party and the electorate that in 2010 voted for the party must now choose between the former President and his successor Juan Manuel Santos, who no longer see eye to eye.
Both senators appeared to have lost hope that Santos and Uribe can make peace and unite the party. Instead, both now propose to align the party members and electorate behind the siutting president.
According to Barreras, the choice is "between war and peace, the past and hope, between institutions or warlordsism, betwene the memory and the pursuit of peace
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