Alan García, former president and unlikely comeback kid, appears to be the winner of Sunday’s voting in Peru’s second-round presidential elections. Exit polls Sunday evening indicated that García had won 52.8% of the vote against 47.2% garnered byHumala. García’s first time in office, between 1985 and 1990, saw Peru default onits debt and annual hyperinflation of 8,000%. However, voters have obviously forgiven or forgotten García’s record of economic management or perhaps are simply voting against the alternative: former coup leader and ex-military man, nationalist Ollanta Humala. García polled 24.3% of the vote against Humala’s 30.6% in the first-round poll on April 9. He narrowly beat off market favorite, conservative Lourdes Flores, who gained 23.8% of the votes.
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