2 candidates with starkly different visions for Peru vie for a runoff spot

Cătălin Roșioru

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Results Thursday from Peru’s presidential election showed such a tight race for second and third place that it could take weeks to finalize the top two candidates for the country’s required runoff election in June. A nationalist congressman allied with an imprisoned former president and an ultraconservative politician who promises to reinstate the death penalty are top contenders to face Keiko Fujimori , who was virtually assured of taking the top slot among the 35 candidates

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