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After Colombia's 2016 referendum on the FARC peace accord failed by roughly 0.5%, what did negotiators do next?
Answer
They revised the accord and had it ratified by Congress instead of another referendum
Following the narrow rejection, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos's government renegotiated details of the accord with FARC and pushed the revised version through Congress rather than risking another public vote.
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Colombia's 2016 peace accord with FARC rebels initially failed a public referendum by 0.5%, forcing negotiators to restart talks from scratch.
Other options people guess
- They abandoned peace talks with FARC entirely
- They held a second referendum, which passed easily
- They transferred the negotiations to the United Nations Security Council
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- peace-accord
- diplomacy
- congress
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