Rio: Left-wing politician Yamandu Orsi was elected president of Uruguay, established results showed on Sunday, in a reprimand by citizens of five years of liberal law.
In a close election, Uruguayans gathered to cast ballots for the next round of the center-right Republican Coalition led by retiring President Luis Lacalle Pou and candidate Alvaro Delgado of the National Party.
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In his victory speech on Sunday night, Orsi said he would be the” who calls for national dialogue to find the best answers.” “
Delgado however admitted defeat, claiming Yamandu Orsi was receiving” a big hug and a hello.” “
Analysts did not anticipate a significant shift in Uruguay’s financial direction because Orsi had formerly promised” change that will not be radical” despite the election’s potential to change the country’s balance of power. “
Both individuals pledged to combat drug trafficking-related violence and encourage economic growth, which is recovering from the Covid-19 epidemic and historic drought.
With 94. 4 percent of votes counted, Orsi won 1,123,420 vote compared to Delgado’s 1,042,001, the government’s Electoral Court said.
Cheers broke out in the investment Montevideo, a fortress of Frente Amplio help, when forecasts showing Orsi leading were announced.
His plan was boosted by aid from Jose” Pepe” Mujica, a former rebel lionized as” the world’s poorest leader” because of his respectable life during his 2010-2015 time in office.
Orsi, seen as an apprentice of Mujica, had garnered 43. The first-round ballot on October 27 was 9 percentage, less than the 50 % required to avoid a runoff, but it was ahead of the 26 percent. 7 cent of votes cast for Delgado.
A crowded field of 11 candidates vying to replace Lacalle Pou, who has a high approval score but is lawfully prohibited from running for a second term, chose the match.
Following October congressional elections, Orsi may manage with a majority in the Senate, though the Frente Amplio is in the majority in the Chamber of Representatives.
‘ A very different world ‘
Uruguay may return to its center-right-rule after five centuries of Orsi’s success. 4 million citizens.
With a success in the 2005 presidential election, the Frente Amplio coalition overran a decades-long traditional monopoly.
Due to concerns about rising crime brought on by higher taxes and the increase in heroin prostitution through the harbor of Montevideo, it was voted out in 2020.
Five years later, polling results revealed that Uruguayans still worry the most about perceived vulnerability.
A 72-year-old resident who voted, Juan Antonio Stivan, said he really wanted the second government to assure” safety– to be able to go out in the street with peace of mind, as an older person, as a young person, as a child. “
Another voter, Aldo Soroara, a 60-year-old winegrower, said he expected whoever is elected as president to do” the best he can for the people,” adding:” You ca n’t ask for much more in these difficult times. “
Voting is compulsory in Uruguay, one of Latin America’s most stable governments, with relatively high per-capita money and lower poverty levels.
Uruguay legalized same-sex matrimony and abortion in the heyday of communist rule, becoming the first Latin American country to outlaw smoking in public spaces, and the first country in the world to permit the use of recreational marijuana in 2013
Former president Mujica, who is battling cancer and had to use a cane to move into his voting place to vote, said Sunday:” Privately, I have nothing more to look forward to. My closest potential is the tomb, for causes of age.
However, I’m interested in the fate of the younger people I know, who will live in a completely different world when I’m their age. “
