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Political rising stars: WOMEN

" Peru faces presidential run-off vote ," shouts this morning CNN-IBN Live news headline. I have an interest in world politics, so I dig a little deeper into the body of the article and find the prize. Yep! Another example of a recent phenomena seeping across the global, political landscape—women running for top government slots AND, many more times than ever before, winning. IBN Live goes on to report that election watchdog Transparencia has Flores with 24.4% of the vote, only 5% behind leading candidate Ollanta Humala and .1% ahead of third place Garcia. Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano is a Peruvian politician and lawyer. She currently leads the Unidad Nacional (National Unity) alliance and the Partido Popular Cristiano (Popular Christian Party or PPC) in Peru, which is the most well-known right-of-center party of the country... In 2000, Lourdes Flores led the PPC in joining with the Partido Renovación y el Partido Solidaridad Nacional to form the Unidad Nacional