When the clock struck 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, on his social networks, the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle Pou, announced that he had contacted the Broad Front candidate, Yamandú Orsi, to congratulate him on his victory in the second round of the elections. presidential.
“I called @OrsiYamandu to congratulate him as President-elect of our country and to put myself at his command and begin the transition as soon as he understands it is pertinent,” he wrote on his social network account X.
While the last votes are still being counted, no one questions that the Frente Amplio candidate in the Uruguayan elections, Yamandú Orsi, won the second round over the ruling National Party.
The front of leftist organizations won by a few points advantage that was enough for victory and a return ticket to the presidency of the neighboring country. Orsi defeated the ruling party’s candidate, Álvaro Delgado, who could not retain the presidential election for the National Party. The Uruguayan second round was measured by Orsi, who won the first round, and Delgado.
The election day went smoothly and the candidates voted accompanied by close leaders and militants.
President Luis Lacalle Pou assured that the transition of command will begin tonight with the winner.
89.4% of citizens voted in the runoff between the Broad Front Yamandú Orsi and the nationalist Álvaro Delgado, according to the Electoral Court, which means more than 2.4 million people of the total population eligible to vote (2,727 .120 people).
The percentage of participation in the October national elections had been 89%.
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