Yamadu Orsi will be the next president of Uruguay after winning the presidential elections in the second round. After a close vote and while the official examination still did not reveal any of the winning candidates, the current president, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the official candidate, Álvaro Delgado, have already recognized their victory, a victory obtained with a narrow majority. just over 90,000 votes. The Broad Front thus returns to the government it already occupied between 2005 and 2020 in the hands of Tabaré Vázquez and Jose Mujica.
Concretely, with 99% of the votes counted, Orsi and his running mate, Carolina Cosse, collected 49.81% of the votes, compared to 45.9% obtained by the candidacy of Delgado and Valeria Ripoll. After knowing the first results, the president-elect gave a speech to his party activists in which He promised to be the president “of national growth” and one that builds “a more integrated society”.
“I will be the president who calls again and again for national dialogue to find the best solutions. Of course, with our proposals, but also by listening carefully to what others tell us”, underlined the winner of the elections. “I will be the president who will build a more integrated society, a more integrated country, where, despite Even in spite of Face differences, no one can be left behind from an economic, social and political point of view,” he added.
Orsi assured that the victory obtained this Sunday began in the first round of the presidential and legislative elections of October 27. With the results obtained, over the period 2025-2030, Wide front will have the majority in the Chamber of Senators, while no force will have it in the Chamber of Deputies.
Furthermore, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the first elections after the civil-military dictatorship (1973-1985), the elected president celebrated democracy and greeted “those who adopt another idea and other flags”. “We have differences in our thinking (but), there should never be room for grievances nor for disqualification,” he stressed.
“Today we are very happy, those of us who embrace these flags. Today we are very happy, those of us who recognize that we have won. But let us understand, citizens of my political force and those who accompany me, there is another part of our people who, like us some time ago, today have a different feeling”, he emphasized. His political project, he declared, needs the help of this part of Uruguayan society to build “a better country”.
