Peru's presidential election heads to runoff

    LIMA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Two leading candidates for presidency will compete in a runoff in May as none of them garnered more than 50 percent of the votes needed to win Peru's presidential election on Sunday, the preliminary results showed.

Nationalist leads in Peru's election

Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala  (Xinhua)

    LIMA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Peru's general elections ended on Sunday with exit polls indicating a lead for the nationalist Ollanta Humala, as voters in the centre of the country were reportedly wounded by bomb explosions.

    The polling day began at 8:00 a.m. local time (1300 GMT) and ended at 4:00 p.m. (2100 GMT).

    Exit polls said former army commander Humala, of Peru's Nationalist Union Party, had won the highest number of votes, but still below the 50 percent plus one vote needed to win the nation's presidency outright in one round.

    The polls, which also showed the election was witnessing Peru's highest ever voter turnout, gave former president Alan Garcia, of the Aprist Party, and Lourdes Flores, of the National Alliance, a technical draw for second place.

Voting ends in Peru's general elections

    LIMA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Voting ended at ballot stations across Peru on Sunday, as people cast ballots for a new president and a state legislature.

Polls open for Peru's presidential election

    LIMA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Peruvians began to flock to polling station on Sunday morning to choose a new president for the country.