Humala claims victory in tight Peru poll

2012-08-24 6

Partial official results show a narrow lead for leftist Ollanta Humala in Peru's presidential election.

With three quarters of the country's ballot boxes counted on Sunday, Humala (50.087 per cent) held a lead of about 20,600 votes over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori.

Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez reports.