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Polls leading up to Sunday's runoff election gave different results but showed a technical tie between the two. Credit: Reuters/Pilar Olivares/Files By Caroline Stauffer and Terry Wade LIMA | Sun Jun 5, 2011 1:13am EDT LIMA (Reuters) - The right-wing daughter of a jailed former president faces a leftist former army commander in Peru's presidential election on Sunday in a combative race to lead a young democracy and booming economy. Opinion polls show an extremely close vote between Ollanta Humala, a career military man who has moderated his anti-capitalist views since narrowly losing the 2006 election, and lawmaker Keiko Fujimori, the 36-year-old candidate favored by business leaders and investors. Most recent polls have shown Humala with a thin lead over Fujimori, although locked in a statistical tie after accounting for margin of error. But a poll by Ipsos on Saturday showed Humala ahead by 3.8 percentage points, giving him what would be a clear, though narrow, win. The contest has tightened as Humala attacked Fujimori for having worked in the government of her father, Alberto Fujimori, who ruled Peru during the 1990s and shut down Congress to consolidate power in 1992. The younger Fujimori has shot back by warning that Humala might dismantle the free-market reforms first implemented by her father and that helped spur an unprecedented economic surge over the past decade after years of chaos and guerrilla wars. To appeal to undecided voters in a runoff campaign that has polarized Peru, Fujimori apologized for her father's excesses, while Humala promised to manage the economy prudently and respect foreign investors who plan to pour $40 billion into mining and oil projects in the country over the next decade. Investors are wary of Humala, however, and Peru's currency and stock market have slumped whenever opinion polls show him gaining ground. Peru's stock market lost $14 billion in the weeks since Humala won the first-round vote in roller-coaster trading, before recovering ground. 'DEMOCRACY, NOT DICTATORSHIP' "We are proposing democracy, not dictatorship ... with development, social and economic inclusion, as well as economic growth," Humala said as he wrapped up his campaign. Although they come from opposite ends of the political spectrum, critics say both have an authoritarian streak. They have both called for better social programs and say Peru's rapid growth of the past decade has failed to lift up the one-third of Peruvians mired in poverty. Humala, who led an unsuccessful revolt in 2000 to demand the elder Fujimori step down, reached the second round by courting mostly rural Peruvians who have long felt ignored by elites in the capital, Lima. Fujimori, popular among the urban poor and women, squeaked through to the second round when three more moderate candidates splintered the centrist vote. Humala, 48, has taken to wearing ties, carrying rosary beads and emulating the conciliatory style of center-left leaders like former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. He now promises to respect Peru's many free trade pacts and the independence of the central bank, and to run a balanced budget, but still favors a more statist agenda that would increase control over natural resources in one of the world's top mineral exporters. "We want to escape poverty," said 31-year old Marilu Requejo, a travel agent in Lima. "Humala will help us. He has to. He's not going to turn Peru into another Venezuela." Critics say Humala has not abandoned the hard-line ideology instilled in him by his father, a prominent radical. They warn he would take over private firms and change the constitution to allow himself to run for consecutive terms like his one time political mentor, Venezuelan socialist President Hugo Chavez. Those warnings have scared some Peruvians, who are enjoying growing wealth and remain haunted by the destabilizing hyperinflation and insurgencies of the 1980s and 1990s. The elder Fujimori is credited for stabilizing the economy and defeating Marxist rebels. But his use of death squads against suspected leftists and widespread corruption led to him being sentenced to prison for 25 years after he returned to Peru in 2007, following his flight to exile in Japan in 2000. As she seeks to return to the presidential palace she called home as a young woman and become one of the world's youngest female leaders, Fujimori has sought to portray herself as an independent, hard-working mother who no longer relies on her father for advice and will champion business. "It is fundamental for us to maintain clear rules for investors," Fujimori said before the runoff. "(Humala) is a good soldier of Hugo Chavez." 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