Published November 25,2024
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Yamandu Orsi, left-wing candidate and protégé of former President Jose “Pepe” Mujica, gained the second spherical of Uruguay’s presidential election Sunday, based on unbiased polling companies conducting fast counts taken from small samples of ballots forged within the nation.
With 97% of the ballots counted, Orsi obtained 49% of the vote, whereas his opponent, Alvaro Delgado of the ruling center-right coalition, gained 46%.
“Congratulations to President-elect Orsi. He can count on us to build the agreements that Uruguay needs to continue moving towards development,” stated Delgado, 55, admitting defeat.
The 57-year-old historical past professor will succeed President Luis Lacalle Pou on March 1, 2025, who has an approval degree near 50% however is constitutionally prevented from speedy reelection.
“I called Yamandu Orsi to congratulate him as president-elect of our country,” Lacalle Pou wrote on X, including he would “put himself at his service and begin the transition as soon as I deem it appropriate.”
With Orsi, the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) leftist alliance will return to energy following its defeat in 2020 after three consecutive phrases, one in every of them below the management of Mujica, who’s 89 years previous and recovering from esophageal most cancers.
Orsi and Delgado took a lead over 9 rivals within the first voting spherical on Oct. 27, however neither of them had sufficient votes to declare an outright victory. Voting in Uruguay is obligatory for greater than 2.7 million people who find themselves eligible to forged ballots for a brand new president.
Leftist leaders within the area congratulated the newly elected president, together with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
“I want to congratulate the Uruguayan people for the holding of democratic and peaceful elections and, in particular, the elected President Yamandu Orsi, and my friend Pepe Mujica for today’s victory. It is a victory for all of Latin America and the Caribbean,” Lula stated in a message on X.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum additionally despatched a congratulatory message to Orsi.
“Congratulations to Yamandu Orsi and Carolina Cosse for their victory as president and vice president of the sister Eastern Republic of Uruguay. The Frente Amplio returns to govern by the will of the Uruguayan people, who once again demonstrate their democratic and progressive vocation,” she wrote on X.
Source: www.anews.com.tr