PORTRAIT – The Frente amplio candidate was the favorite of former president Pepe Mujica. The first president of Uruguay not from Montevideo since the return of democracy in 1985, he comes from a modest family in the department of Canelones.
The left is back at the head of Uruguay. With 50% of the vote against 46% for his center-right rival, Alvaro Delgado, Yamandu Orsi largely won the second round of the Uruguayan presidential election this Sunday, November 24, 2024. He succeeds Luis Lacalle Pou of the national party (right) who could not stand for re-election, the constitution prohibiting him from serving two successive presidential terms. The right-wing Partido Nacional and Colorado parties succeeded each other in power after the end of the dictatorship in 1985 until 2010, the date of the victory of Tabare Vasquez of the Frente amplio (left) who led the country twice: from 2005 to 2010 then from 2015 to 2020. The emblematic Jose Pepe Mujica, still from Rente amplio, was president of 2010 to 2015.
End of the dictatorship
On October 27 during the first round, Yamandu Orsi obtained 43.9% of the votes ahead of Alvaro Delgado, 26.6% of the Partido Nacional and Andres Ojeda, 16%, of the Colorado Party (right). The general elections which took place on…
This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 73% left to discover.
Black Friday: last days
-70% on digital subscription
Already subscribed? Log in
France
World
