Preu's Humala, Garcia to compete in presidential runoff in June

Peru's National Electoral Board (JNE) said on Wednesday that nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala and former President Alan Garcia will compete in the presidential runoff on June 4.

With 99.98 percent of the votes in the first round counted, Humala, who leads the People's Union of Peru, had 30.62 percent of the vote. Garcia, of the Peru Aprist Party, had 24.32 percent.

Conservative Lourdes Flores had 23.80 percent of the vote.

Under the Peruvian Constitution, a presidential candidate must obtain an absolute majority to be declared an outright winner. If no candidate garners more than 50 percent of the vote, the two leading candidates will compete in a runoff.

Source: Xinhua