Former Guerrillas Face a Drubbing in Their First Colombian Election
- Polls show FARC candidates winning less than 1 percent of vote
- FARC has five seats guaranteed in both congressional chambers
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A Marxist guerrilla movement that spent five decades fighting the Colombian state faces its first democratic test as a political party Sunday. Polls show it will receive a drubbing.
Candidates for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which handed in its weapons to UN monitors last year, will get less than one percent of the vote for the senate, according to a poll published by El Tiempo newspaper on March 4.