Some 2.7 million citizens are called to vote this Sunday, November 24 in a second electoral round in which the successor of the current president of Uruguay will be chosen, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the vice president, Beatriz Argimonfor the period 2025-2030.
After none of the eleven candidates who competed in the previous instance on October 27 exceeded 50% of the votes, the two with the most votes, Yamandú Orsi, for the Broad Frontand Álvaro Delgado, for the ruling National Party, They will compete for the presidency this Sunday.
According to official data from the Electoral Court, The ballot boxes will receive, between 8:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. (11:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. GMT), the votes in the 7,225 voting circuits distributed in the 19 departments (provinces) of the country, which has three and a half million inhabitants.
According to the Constitution, the vote in Uruguay is “secret and obligatory“, except in the primary elections, where the candidate is chosen to represent each party, which is voluntary.
Voting will be carried out in order of arrival in the electoral circuits, which will operate with Vote Receiving Commissions composed of three members: president, secretary and member, and only the civic credential will be validated to exercise the vote. Likewise, there are three types of circuits: urban, rural and accessible.
While in the first voters must always belong to the circuit, in the rural Those who do not belong to the circuit may vote, as long as their civic registration corresponds to a rural constituency of the department. In this case, people will vote as simple observers.
On the other hand, the accessible circuits are intended for voters with permanent or temporary motor disability, and those who should vote in a location or Vote Receiving Commission that does not have accessibility conditions. The vote will also be of a simple observed nature.
The second round of elections, also called runoff elections, was held for the first time in 1999 after a plebiscite that reformed the Constitution and introduced both this instance and the primary elections.
The runoff pits the two most voted candidates face to face in the presidential and parliamentary elections that are held on the last Sunday of October every five years and is carried out as long as no one has surpassed the 50% of the votes.
On Sunday it is expected that the former presidents Julio María Sanguinetti (1985-1990 and 1995-2000), Luis Alberto Lacalle (1990-1995) and Jose Mujica (2010-2015), and Lacalle Pou Vote between morning and noon.
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