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News:
- Conservative Ivan Duque has won Colombia’s presidential election, putting the landmark 2016 peace deal with the FARC at risk.
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Important facts:
- Right-wing candidate has pledged to roll back parts of the landmark 2016 peace accord with the FARC group.
- The outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos signed the peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), formally ending more than 50 years of conflict that left at least 220,000 people dead and more than seven million displaced.
- Duque is supported by former-president, Alvaro Uribe, one of the peace accord’s fiercest critics for its perceived soft judicial treatment of “FARC terrorists”.
- The FARC’s withdrawal from the contest worked a setback for the central plank of the peace process.
