LIMA, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The Peruvian government announced on Wednesday that it will recall its ambassador to Venezuela, in response to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's public support to Peruvian leftist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala.

    Hugo Chavez's public support for Ollanta Humala is seen as the intervention in the internal affairs of Peru, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Wednesday.

    The Peruvian government will make efforts to ensure the success of the presidential election, to be held in April, and will not allow any intervention in the poll, the ministry added.

    President Chavez met with Humala and Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales on Tuesday in Caracas, Venezuela.

    Both Chavez and Morales offered support to Humala, who led a fruitless military rebellion against former President Alberto Fujimori in 2000, and was pardoned by the parliament after Fujimori stepped down.

    Recent polls showed that Humala ran ahead of other presidential candidates. Enditem