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 LIMA, Peru (AP) - Vote counting in Peru's presidential election slowed Friday for the Easter holiday weekend, leaving the country in suspense over who will face nationalist Ollanta Humala in a runoff.
Since no candidate received at least 50 percent of the vote in Sunday's balloting, a runoff between the two top vote-getters will be held in late May or early June.
With nearly 89 percent of the votes counted, Humala led with 31 percent, enough to guarantee him a place in the runoff. Former President Alan Garcia had 24.4 percent and former Congresswoman Lourdes Flores had 23.4 percent, a difference of less than 113,000 votes.
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