The voting stations closed this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. (11:30 p.m. in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands) in Uruguaywithin the framework of the second round of the presidential elections, between the candidate of the Frente Amplio, Yamandú Orsi, and the candidate of the ruling National Party, Álvaro Delgado.
More than 2.7 million people were called to the polls this Sunday to choose the presidential formula of the Latin American country for the next five years.
Voting is mandatory in Uruguay, so if a citizen does not come to deposit their ballot in the ballot box, they will be subject to fines from the electoral body. In fact, as pointed out by the Minister of the Electoral Court, Ana Lía Piñeyrúa, shortly after the closing of the schools, at 8:00 p.m. (12:00 a.m. in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands), the 89.4 percent of voters.
According to the main polls, the presidential ticket of Orsi and his candidate for vice president, Carolina Cosse, has close to 48 percent voting intention, a few points ahead of Delgado and his candidate for ‘number two’, Valeria Ripoll, who have the support of more than 46 percent. According to these data, the elections would be decided by the remaining 6 percent of undecided people.
The question now is whether the National Party – also known as the White Party – is capable of uniting the votes of the rest of the political formations, as has already happened in the past. In 2019, the majority of formations opposed to the Broad Front gathered around the Republican Coalition – also known as the Multicolor Coalition – to avoid a progressive government.
The question then becomes whether Delgado will obtain the majority support of the voters of the Colorado Party, Cabildo Abierto or the Constitutional Environmentalist Party, all of them formations on the political spectrum of the right or extreme right, and with positions openly contrary to those of the Frente Amplio. , which barely has support from other parties.
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