Perry withdraws and supports Gingrich

The battle for the Republican at the United States presidential nomination took a turn yesterday Thursday when the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, announced his retirement from the race while it was announced that exsenador conservative Rick Santorum won the caucus Iowa and not the favorite Mitt Romney as he had informed the party.

In his resignation to the race for the Republican, investiture Perry expressed his support for the former President of the House of representatives Newt Gingrich.

The Perry campaign had wavered in recent months, scale but with support for Gingrich, marked a challenge for Mitt Romney, favourite for the crucial primary election of South Carolina to be held Saturday.

"Came to the conclusion that there is not a viable way for me in this campaign of 2012." "Therefore, I suspend my campaign today (Thursday) and support to Newt Gingrich to the Presidency of United States", said in the city of Charleston, Carolina State of the u000aSouth (Southeast).

"As a Texan, never retired from a match, particularly when I believed that the cause was just, but as someone who always admired a great, if the mayor, Governor of Texas (South) Sam Houston, I don't know when is the time to make a strategic withdrawal", stated.

The victory of Santorum
yesterday Thursday also was announced that Rick Santorum was ultimately the winner of the primary of Iowa, beating his rival Mitt Romney, who was originally attributed to triumph in the vote in the last 3 of January.

Certified the vote count revealed that Santorum surpassed by 34 votes to Romney, while the final outcome might not know ever since the Republican Party of Iowa reported that the results of eight constituencies in the central region of the State had lost.

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