Scandal-hit Guatemala's presidential race heads for run-off


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  • Monday, 07 Sep 2015

Guatemalan presidential candidate for National Convergence Front, Jimmy Morales, flashes the victory sign as he addresses the media at his campaign headquarters in Guatemala City, September 6, 2015. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala was bound for a presidential election run-off after the three leading candidates split Sunday´s vote, prolonging political uncertainty just days after a graft scandal toppled the president.

Otto Perez resigned as president on Thursday and spent election day in jail while a judge considered charging him over a customs corruption racket, plunging the poor Central American country into its worst political crisis in two decades.

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