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Spanish.- With a lead of about three percentage points, the candidate from the leftist Frente Amplio, Yamandú Orsi, won the presidential runoff in Uruguay this Sunday, defeating the candidate supported by the government, Álvaro Delgado, from the National Party.
President Luis Lacalle Pou admitted the result even before the official count reached 50% and offered his support to his successor to begin the transition. “I called @OrsiYamandu to congratulate him as the president-elect of our country and to offer my support to start the transition as soon as he deems it appropriate,” wrote the current president on his X social media account.
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Yamandú Orsi had 49.84% compared to Álvaro Delgado’s 45.86%, with 99.93% of the votes counted until the publication of this article, according to the official disclosure by the Electoral Court. The turnout was 89.4%, a percentage similar to that recorded in the first round.
With this result, Uruguay takes a turn to the left, which is already being celebrated by some of its regional leaders, such as in neighboring Argentina, where former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is currently convicted of corruption, expressed her “enormous joy” for the return of the Frente Amplio to government, also taking the opportunity to congratulate former Uruguayan president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica for this result, as he is the main leader of the left in the small South American nation.
Also from their X account, the Puebla Group congratulated Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse, his running mate for the Vice Presidency, highlighting that with their victory, Uruguay takes “one more step towards social justice and inclusion.” This clearly shows the ideological line of the next president of Uruguay, who has been seen in photos showing his closeness to former Argentine president Alberto Fernández, who is facing a judicial process for mistreating his ex-wife, and has also whitewashed authoritarian regimes in the region such as those of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
