Tag: Ollanta Humala

• Friday, June 3rd 2011 - 03:14 UTC

  Keiko Fujimori with minimum lead over Humala in Peru presidential run-off

  

  Conservative Keiko Fujimori is two percentage points ahead of nationalist Ollanta Humala in Peru’s presidential runoff next Sunday June 5, according to the latest opinion polls, but the difference is too tight to anticipate a clear winner.

• Monday, May 23rd 2011 - 04:06 UTC

  Peruvian president says he’s rather fond of Chavez with whom fights are over

  

  Peruvian outgoing president Alan García said on Sunday that the days of rivalry and fights with his peer Hugo Chavez are over and admitted he’s quite fond of the Venezuelan president whom he considers a man “respectful of institutions and power”.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2011 - 17:13 UTC

  Humala or Keiko, they will have to work hard for parliamentary support

  

  Whatever happens next June 5 when the Peruvian presidential run-off between Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori, none of them will have a clear support in the 130 seats Congress which will force alliances as has been the recent legislative history of the Andean country.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 15:09 UTC

  Peru’s Humala promises good relations with Chile, discards Venezuela’s ALBA

  

  Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala said that in the event of winning the runoff against Keiko Fujimori he will strengthen relations with Brazil, Chile and the United States as well as with Unasur, and has no intentions of joining Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez inspired ALBA.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 15:58 UTC

  Humala and Keiko will have to convince the 45% middle of the road vote

  

  With 90% of Sunday’s presidential election ballots counted Peru is headed for a runoff between nationalist Ollanta Humala and former lawmaker Keiko Fujimori, a choice many voters in the country’s surging middle and upper classes might have trouble swallowing.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 - 04:25 UTC

  Humala’s run off with Keiko Fujimori; Peruvian economy faces overheating

  

  Peru’s presidential election on Sunday will have a second round of voting between Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori on 5th June, according to the latest official percentages which indicate the nationalist former Army officer has 31.75% of the vote and the daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, 23.29%, quite distanced from Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s (PPK) 18.8%.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 05:00 UTC

  Peruvian presidential election has a winner, a run off date but no runner-up, yet

  

  Former army officer and politically nationalist Ollanta Humala won the most votes in Peru’s presidential elections, though will need to wait for full results to know who he’ll face in a June runoff.

• Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 20:33 UTC

  Peruvian presidential run-off between Humala and Keiko Fujimori, forecast polls

  

  Nationalist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala is forecast to get just under 30% of the vote in Peru's election on Sunday and face lawmaker Keiko Fujimori in a run-off, sources with access to two different polls said on Thursday.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 00:47 UTC

  Humala leads in Peruvian presidential race and a run-off June 5 is almost certain

  

  Nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala consolidated his lead in Peru’s presidential race according to the latest public opinion polls published Sunday in the country’s main dailies. Earlier in the week Humala promised investors he would manage the economy prudently and respect foreign investors despite his radical past.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 00:45 UTC

  Vargas Llosa blasts Humala and Keiko: ‘it’s like choosing between cancer and aids’

  

  Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori rejected Mario Vargas Llosa’s remarks who said once again that choosing between Ollanta Humala and her, was like choosing between cancer and terminal Aids, and said that the Nobel Prize winner’s comments are “useless”.