Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, became the country's new president in a tight runoff election that ousted the conservative governing coalition.
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Supporters of Alvaro Delgado, presidential candidate for the ruling National Party, listen to early results from pollsters at the party's campaign night headquarters in Montevideo, Uruguay, after polls closed in the presidential run-off election, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. A voter wrapped in a flag of the Frente Amplio arrives to a polling station to vote in the presidential run-off in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024.
Supporters of the Frente Amplio celebrate the victory of candidate Yamand Orsi in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. Supporters of the Broad Front celebrate the victory of candidate Yamand Orsi in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024.
Delgado told supporters gathered at his own party’s headquarters in the capital of Montevideo that he had lost. The crowd was hushed. With nearly all the votes counted, electoral officials reported that Orsi won 49.8% of the vote, ahead of Delgado’s 45.9%, a clear call after weeks in which the opponents appeared tied in polls.
Orsi's win ushers in a return of the Broad Front that governed for 15 consecutive years until the 2019 election of center-right President Luis Lacalle Pou. Despite Orsi's promise to lead a “new left” in Uruguay, his platform resembles the mix of market-friendly policies and welfare programs initiated under
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