Ex-Army Officer Seeks Peru Presidency
A former army officer whose nationalistic stance has made him a contender in Peru‘s April 9 presidential race paraded with hundreds of supporters Friday to election offices to register as a candidate.
Retired Lt. Col. Ollanta Humala told reporters he was taking “with humility” recent polls showing him in a statistical dead heat with former Congresswoman Lourdes Flores, considered by many to be the front-runner.
In a national survey of 1,144 people Dec. 16-19 by polling firm Datum Internacional, Flores was favored by 26 percent of respondents, and Humala by 23 percent. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points, putting the two in a statistical tie.
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