LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian lawmakers elected an opposition legislator as head of Congress on Sunday in a new but hardly unsurprising defeat for the ruling party and increasingly unpopular President Ollanta Humala who is in his last year in office.
Luis Iberico of the small Alliance for Progress party won with backing from lawmakers loyal to opposition presidential aspirant Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a jailed former president and whose party makes up the largest voting bloc in Congress.
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