After serving the maximum constitutionally allowed two terms as president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos is now getting ready to hand over power to a successor. But it is far from clear who that may be. With a full list of presidential runners yet to be confirmed, the early pre-electoral polls point to a wide-open race between those that want to secure and perfect what is considered to be Santos’s main political legacy – the signing of a peace deal with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) insurgent guerrillas – and those that want to wreck it. Against this backdrop the direction that Colombia will take in the next four years represents an unknown. End of preview - This article contains approximately 698 words.
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