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Uruguay: Leftist Orsi regains presidency for the Frente Amplio

November 25th 2024 ,
Meeting between Luis Lacalle Pou, Carolina Cosse, Yamandú Orsi and Andrés Lima.

The Frente Amplio candidate, Yamandú Orsi, became the future president of Uruguay on Sunday, after defeating the official candidate, Álvaro Delgado, of the National Party, by just over 90.000 votes, with 98% of the electoral circuits counted, according to data provided by the Electoral Court.

With 98,65% of the votes counted, the Frente Amplio ticket, made up of Orsi and Carolina Cosse, received 1.179.454 votes, while the ruling National Party ticket received 1.086.758.

These figures show that the Broad Front maintains a lead of 92.696 votes and obtained 107.628 more votes than it had obtained in the first round of the presidential and parliamentary elections on October 27.

On the other hand, 37.926 people voted blank, while 63.605 spoiled their vote in a instance in which 89,4% of those eligible to vote did.

After the first projections from the consulting firms became known, The current president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, and Delgado congratulated Orsi on his victory.

Later, the new president gave a speech to the militants in which he assured that he will be the president of “national growth” and the one who will build “a more integrated society.”

After the results were announced, thousands of activists celebrated in different parts of Montevideo amidst heavy rain, a prelude to the strong storms that are forecast for the next few hours and which have forced the activation of an orange alert.

Cars with flags, families walking through the downtown area of ​​the capital, fireworks and musical celebrations were part of the electoral landscape on Sunday night.

Meanwhile, several leaders rushed to congratulate the president-elect, who will take office on March 1, 2025, Among them the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

"I would like to congratulate the Uruguayan people for holding democratic and peaceful elections and, in particular, President-elect Yamandú Orsi, the Frente Amplio and my friend Pepe Mujica for today's victory," Lula wrote on social media.

For his part, the President of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, congratulated the Uruguayan people for their civic commitment and reported that he had contacted Orsi to “express the commitment” of his country “to continue collaborating” for the benefit of both nations.

Meanwhile, Chilean President Gabriel Boric also said that he called the new president of Uruguay and that they both talked about “how to move forward together, as sister countries.”

Agencies contributed to this Aurora article.

4 thoughts on “Uruguay: Leftist Orsi recovers the presidency for the Frente Amplio”
  1. Every day, humanity is heading towards the precipice. By electing these leftist parasites, countries are ruined. The vaccine has left people mentally ill.

  2. In 5 years, the country that President Lacalle Pou built will be ruined. It is regrettable how they bought votes for crumbs and the money they spent to bring voters from Argentina and Brazil. Five years of terror await Uruguay. The winner's party is pro-Iran, pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas. Anyone who attacks Israel, they adore them out of envy... they had to be communists.

  3. In 40 years of democracy, the opposition parties to the Frente Amplio governed for 25 years and in those years workers' salaries and average pensions increased between 12% and 13%. The FA governed for 40 of those 15 years and salaries and pensions increased by 87%, almost 88%... the people are not idiots, that is the difference between the rancid, elitist, retrograde, violent and above all parasitic right and progressivism.

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