Exit polls: Lima's first elected female mayor survives recall vote
Exit polls: Lima's first elected female mayor survives recall vote
By The Associated Press March 17, 2013 11:00 PM
LIMA, Peru - Lima's first elected female mayor will survive a recall election widely seen as a bid to reclaim power by groups threatened by her reforms, three exit polls suggested on Sunday.
The polls showed that roughly 53 per cent of voters want centre-leftist Susana Villaran to finish her term as mayor of Peru's capital.
Villaran has battled to organize Lima's chaotic, transit system and reform other corruption-ridden institutions. The career human rights official was backed by most of Peru's political establishment.
But her detractors, including her predecessor, Luis Castaneda, called her inept and inefficient, and slow in executing public works projects. They collected signatures to call Sunday's vote on whether to remove her from office.
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