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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