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Peru poll goes into run-off

LIMA: Two leading candidates for presidency will compete in a runoff in May as none of them garnered more than50 per cent of the votes needed to win Peru's presidential election on Sunday, the preliminary results showed. With 45.16 per cent of the votes counted, the Central Election Commission said late on Sunday night that former army leader Ollanta Humala got a slim lead with 27.32 per cent of the votes, followed by conservative Lourdes Flores with 26.45 per cent and social-democratic former President Alan Garcia with 26.05 per cent. About 16.50 million voters cast their ballot in 4,041 ballot stations on Sunday all over the country. — Xinhua

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