Change course or continue on the same path. This is the decision that the Uruguayans will have to make this Sunday at elections marked by parity as the latest surveys show.
Twenty-eight days after the presidential and legislative elections in Uruguay, approximately 2.7 million citizens They will go to the polls on November 24 to choose between the ruling party, Álvaro Delgado, and the opposition, Yamandú Orsi.
After none of the eleven candidates competing in the previous instance exceeded 50% of the votes, the two with the most votes advanced to the runoff.
This will take place between 8:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. local time (11:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. GMT) and should around 9:30 p.m., consulting firms can present their first projections.
Latest surveys
However, the latest surveys presented showed lots of parity between the opposition candidate Frente Amplio and the one who will represent the government coalition, made up of the ruling National Party, the Colorado Party, the Cabildo Abierto, the Independent Party and the Constitutional Ecologist Party.
This Friday, five days after Delgado and Orsi faced each other in a mandatory debate in which they presented their main proposals for the period 2025-2030, the South American country began to undergo the electoral ban.
The second round of Uruguay’s presidential elections was first held in 1999. A plebiscite held in 1996 reformed the South American country’s Constitution and introduced changes such as the creation of primary elections and runoff elections the last Sunday in November.
This puts face to face with the two most voted candidates in the presidential and legislative elections which take place every five years on the last Sunday in October and which take place as long as no one has exceeded 50% of the votes on this occasion.
By this road, The Colorado Party maintained government in the 1999 elections. and he did it with a historic last name.
Jorge Batlle He became the fourth Batlle to become president of the South American country, following his great-grandfather Lorenzo Batlle, his great-uncle José Batlle y Ordóñez and his father, Luis Batlle Berres.
On October 31, 2004, Tabare Vázquez He ran for president again and succeeded in winning the left for the first time in Uruguay by obtaining 51.68% of the votes in the presidential and legislative elections.
This Frente Amplio victory is so far the only one that has allowed a match to be won without resorting to a second round, since it was implemented.
Mujica’s electoral triumphs
Five years later, Jose Mujica He defeated Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera in the second round, and in 2014 Tabaré Vázquez joined the select group of presidents who have governed Uruguay twice by defeating Luis Lacalle Pou. The current president accessed this body again in 2019 and fought the battle on this occasion. wide player Daniel Martínez.
NOW, Delgado and Orsi will be the ones to go hand in hand seeking to access the presidency for the period 2025-2030.
A veterinarian by profession, the first of them will try to retain the chair currently occupied by Lacalle Pou, of whom he was secretary to the presidency between 2020 and 2023. Previously, Delgado was a deputy in the period 2005-2015 and senator. between this year and 2020.
For his part, history professor Orsi will run for president after serving as mayor (head of local government) of the department (province) of Canelones between 2015 and 2020. He also served as secretary general there between 2005 and 2015.
