TOO CLOSE TO CALL:
Peruvians braced for days and perhaps weeks of uncertainty, as the first-round presidential election result took more than 30 days to complete
AFP, LIMA
Leftist Roberto Sanchez on Monday pulled ahead in Peru’s presidential runoff, overtaking conservative Keiko Fujimori for the first time since counting began. With 18 million ballots counted from Sunday’s poll, Sanchez was ahead by about 15,000 votes, and the race was still much too close to call. Many voters had hoped the election would draw a line under years of political chaos that has seen a string of presidents jailed, deposed and impeached.
A man looks at newspapers in Lima on Monday as the result of the presidential runoff remained unclear.
