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 DILI, East Timor (AP) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta has taken a commanding lead in East Timor's presidential elections with almost half of the ballots counted, the country's electoral commission said Thursday.
Commission spokeswoman Maria Sarmento said Ramos-Horta had so far won around 70 percent of the votes cast in Wednesday's election. The other candidate in the second-round of the vote is former guerrilla fighter Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres.
"Jose Ramos-Horta leads for the time being," Sarmento told a media conference in the capital, Dili.
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