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Garcia takes lead in opinion
polls ahead of Peru's
presidential runoff
Peru's former president Alan
Garcia took the lead in the
latest opinion polls, with nine
days to go to the June 4
presidential election runoff
against the nationalist
candidate Ollanta Humala, local
media said on Friday.
In the latest poll by the
Catholic University's Research
Center, Garcia, a social
democrat from the Peru Aprist
Party, had 54 percent, over 46
percent for Humala, who leads
the Peru Nationalist Union Party
(PNUPP).
Some 23 percent of the people
surveyed said they either had
not decided, or found neither
candidate appealing.
Analysts said those people might
swing the final outcome of the
race.
In an earlier nationwide poll
conducted on May 10-12 by the
polling company Apoyo, Garcia
led Humala, 56 percent to 44
percent.
Out of the 99.98 percent of the
votes counted for the first
round of the election on April
9, Humala, 43, got 30.62
percent, while the 56-year-old
Garcia, who was in power from
1985 to 1990, had 24.32 percent.
They were the front-runners
among 20 candidates competing
for the presidency.
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