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Yamandu Orsi, the candidate for the left-wing Broad Front coalition, is projected to emerge victorious in Uruguay’s run-off election for the presidency. He bested Alvaro Delgado of the ruling National Party to win the tightly fought race, though public opinion polls showed the two candidates in a dead heat in the lead-up to Sunday’s vote. […]
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay—The campaign posters along Artigas Boulevard in the Uruguayan capital were striking, featuring Guido Manini Ríos, a former army chief, grimacing in his military uniform. So was his campaign slogan, “For Security,” and his promise to declare a public security national emergency. Crime was a top voter concern in this election, and Manini Ríos’s tough-on-crime Cabildo […]
A leftist former history teacher and the conservative incumbent-party candidate will square off in a second round of voting next month after voters in Uruguay cast their ballots on Sunday in the South American nation’s presidential election. Scorned by some political commentators as one of the world’s dullest elections, Uruguay’s civilised presidential race has emerged […]