Colombians from areas hard hit by nearly six decades of fighting will for the first time on Sunday elect victims of the conflict to serve as special lawmakers in Congress, fulfilling part of the terms of a 2016 peace accord.
Nearly 39 million people are eligible to vote in contests to fill 108 Senate and 187 lower house seats, as well as participate in one of three primaries for presidential candidates ahead of a May vote for the country's new leader.
But residents of rural jungle and mountain areas where the fighting between leftist rebels, right-wing paramilitary groups, drug gangs and the military was most deeply felt will also get to choose 16 representatives who are victims.
