Peru election: Keiko Fujimori admits defeat to Humala

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13651468

Peru’s right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has admitted defeat in the run-off of the presidential election.

Ms Fujimori said she would congratulate her rival, populist former army officer Ollanta Humala, in person.

Mr Humala has a steady 2.7% lead with almost all the votes counted.

In a reaction to Mr Humala’s apparent win, the stock exchange in the capital Lima, fell by more than 10% shortly after opening, prompting officials to suspend trading for two hours.

“I recognise his triumph,” Ms Fujimori said in a brief message to the media.

Mr Humala had already declared victory on Sunday night.

With most votes counted, the leftist ex-soldier has 51.4% of the vote – 2.7 percentage points ahead of his conservative rival.

In his victory speech, he promised that poor Peruvians would share the country’s mineral wealth and benefit from its impressive economic growth.

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i smell a morales like government here..is he praying to the sun in the first picture?

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