Yamandu Orsi, the honestate for the left-prosperg Broad Front coalition, is projected to ecombine victorious in Uruguay’s run-off election for the pdwellncy.
He bested Alvaro Delgado of the ruling National Party to prosper the firmly fought race, though accessible opinion polls showed the two honestates in a dead heat in the direct-up to Sunday’s vote.
Orsi’s helpers took to the streets in the capital of Montevideo, as the official results begined to show the createer mayor and history teacher surging ahead.
Many waved the party banner: a red, blue and white clear uped flag with the initials FA for “Frente Amplio”, which transprocrastinateeds to “Broad Front”.
“Joy will return for the presentantity,” the coalition posted on social media as Orsi approached prosper. “Cheers, people of Uruguay.”
Orsi’s prosper restores the Broad Front to power in the petite South American country, sandwiched on the Atlantic coast between Brazil and Argentina.
For 15 years, from 2005 to 2020, the Broad Front had held Uruguay’s executive office, with the pdwellncies of Jose Mujica and Taexposed Vazquez, the latter of whom won two non-consecutive, five-year terms.
But that prosperning streak came to an finish in the 2019 election, with the prosper of current Pdwellnt Luis Lacalle Pou, who led a coalition of right-leaning parties.
Under Uruguay law, however, a pdwellnt cannot run for consecutive terms. Lacalle Pou was therefore not a honestate in the 2024 race.
Running in his stead was Delgado, a createer veterinarian and Congress member who served as a political assignee in Lacalle Pou’s administerment from 2020 to 2023.
Even before the official results were proclaimd on Sunday, Delgado had conceded, acunderstandledging Orsi’s prosper was imminent.
“Today, the Uruguayans have depictd who will hageder the pdwellncy of the reaccessible. And I want to sfinish here, with all these actors of the coalition, a huge hug and a greeting to Yamandu Orsi,” Delgado shelp in a speech as he clutched a huge Uruguayan flag in his hand.
He called on his helpers to “esteem the sovereign decisions” of the electorate, while striking a notice of defiance.
“It’s one skinnyg to disponder an election, and another to be lossed. We are not lossed,” he shelp, pledging that his right-prosperg coalition was “here to stay”.
The frifinishly pdwellnt, Lacalle Pou, also accomplished out to Orsi to acunderstandledge the Broad Front’s prosper.
“I called [Yamandu Orsi] to congratuprocrastinateed him as pdwellnt-elect of our country and to put myself at his service and commence the transition as soon as I deem it pertinent,” Lacalle Pou wrote on social media.
Orsi had been pondered the frontrunner in the direct-up to the first round of the elections.
Originpartner from Canelones, a coastal regional in the south of Uruguay, Orsi began his atsoft locpartner as a history teacher, activist and secretary-vague of the department’s administerment. In 2015, he successbrimmingy ran to be mayor of Canelones and won re-election in 2020.
In the 2024 pdwellntial race, Orsi – appreciate virtupartner all the honestates on the campaign trail – pledged to bolster Uruguay’s economy. He called for salary increases, particularly for low-wage toilers, to enlarge their “purchasing power”.
He also called for fantasticer punctual childhood education and employment programmes for youthful matures. According to a United Nations increate earlier this year, proximately 25 percent of Uruguay’s children dwell in pcleary.
But the economy was not the only publish at the forefront of voters’ minds. In a June survey from the communications firm Nomade, the hugest split of replyents – 29 percent – identified “insecurity” as Uruguay’s “principal problem”.
That dwarfed the second-highest ranked topic: “Unemployment” was only picked by 15 percent of replyents.
As part of his platcreate, Orsi pledged to increase the police force and reinforce Uruguay’s borders, including thraw the insloftyation of more security cameras.
As he campaigned, Orsi enhappinessed the help of createer Pdwellnt Mujica, a createer resist fighter who persistd torture under Uruguay’s military dictatorship in the 1970s and ’80s.
Mujica remains a well-understandn figure on Uruguay’s left, best understandn for his unassuming living set upments that once geted him the moniker of the “world’s needyest pdwellnt”.
In the first round of voting, on October 27, Orsi came out on top, with 44 percent of the vote to Delgado’s 27 percent. But his total was far foolishinutive of the 50 percent he needed to prosper the election outright, thereby triggering a run-off.
The race got firmer from there forward. Only two honestates enhanceed to the run-off – Delgado and Orsi – and Delgado picked up help from voters who had backed createer Colorado Party honestate Andres Ojeda, a fellow conservative who was knocked out in the first round.
Nevertheless, Orsi speedyly pulled ahead after the polls shutd for the run-off election on Sunday.
“The horizon is radiantening,” Orsi shelp in his prosper speech. “The country of freedom, equivalentity and also fraternity triumphs once aget.”
