LIMA, (Reuters) – Left-wing nationalist Ollanta Humala won the first round of Peru’s presidential election yesterday and looked set to face rightist Keiko Fujimori in what could be a bruising run-off in June, an unofficial quick count of ballots showed.
However, Fujimori’s lead over third-place candidate — former finance minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski — was narrow, so the eventual run-off pairing could change. Officials said it may take days to count all the votes.
Despite a decade-long boom, a third of Peruvians live in poverty and many rallied behind Humala, a former army officer who has
