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...Lourdes Ubieta, a former host, quit Radio Mambí, describing the deal as “a stab in the heart” of her community. She now presents a show on Americano....
...Lourdes Flores, the market-friendly candidate who narrowly missed out on a place in the second-round run-off on Sunday, said Mr García had won "with borrowed votes" and that he must govern for all Peruvians...
...Two seasoned politicians are vying to confront him in that contest: former president Alan García and Lourdes Flores, a former congresswoman....
...Lourdes Flores, the most market-friendly candidate, trailed in third place with 23.62 per cent....
...The top three contenders are Lourdes Flores, a pro-business woman politician; Alan García, a former president; and and Ollanta Humala, an ex-military officer who once tried to oust Alberto Fujimori, president...
...Alan García, a former president, looked to have the edge, with almost 24.5 per cent of the vote, while Lourdes Flores, a pro-free market lawyer, was in third place with 23.4 per cent....
...In the first round of presidential elections in April, Mr García edged out Lourdes Flores, the only one of the three leading candidates who promised continuity with the policies of the Toledo government....
...nationalist candidate for the presidency of Peru, looked almost certain to have secured enough votes to make it into the second round of voting, but official results showed a virtual tie for second place between Lourdes...
...But as the interminable counting of votes cast in the presidential election on April 9 wraps up this week (click here for coverage and here for results) it would be surprising if Lourdes Flores, the most...
...The prospect of a Humala-García run-off is depressing for many....
...As a result, Peruvian voters now face an unattractive choice between Ollanta Humala, an inexperienced radical nationalist close to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, or Alan García, a one-time radical leftwinger who...
...A poll published on Sunday by Apoyo, gave Mr Humala a four-percentage point lead over Lourdes Flores, the pro-business right-winger....
...But in fact he got no more votes here than Lourdes Flores, the market-friendly candidate, reflecting a view among many that things are slowly getting better....
...Mr Humala leads Lourdes Flores, the conservative free-marketeer who is his main rival, by four points, according to the most recent poll by Apoyo, a respected pollster....
...For weeks investment banks and their Peruvian contacts have been blithely assuring clients that Lourdes Flores, the pro-market favourite, was a sure winner in the second round of the contest....
...Gonzalo García, one of Mr Humala’s two vice-presidential running-mates, played down the market reaction....
...This was reflected in the first round, in which Mr García only managed to squeeze through with about 60,000 votes more than Lourdes Flores, his rightwing rival who ran a lacklustre campaign....
...Alan García, a former president and wily politician, is also running, and could surface as a centrist candidate....
...Lourdes Flores, the conservative frontrunner with a dwindling lead over the former soldier, is taking her second tilt at the presidency....
...They are led by two candidates who lost to Mr Toledo last time: former president Alan Garcia, whose record of economic mismanagement is still remembered, and the slightly more conservative Lourdes Flores...
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