Uruguay's ruling Broad Front headed for parliamentary majority

Tuesday, October 28th 2014 - 07:03 UTC

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Uruguay's ruling Broad Front coalition, despite pollster forecasts to the contrary, confirmed their dominance of local politics and are likely to enjoy a parliamentary majority, after the Sunday presidential election that left Tabare Vazquez as favorite to succeed José Mujica as head of state. Read full article

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ChrisR
Another FUBAR of epic proportions that the commies, Marxists and lazy bastards on handouts have voted for.

“voting is compulsory and not complying sanctioned with a fine, and could turn into a serious problem since most government offices demand an election day attendance certificate.”

Which means ALL the government office and other direct workers HAVE to vote and they are not going to ‘vote for Christmas’, even though they are, by and large, a bunch of turkeys. If a sensible, honest, party, NOT the Broad Fraud, got in then large numbers would have to leave their non-jobs and work for a living in the private sector.

I imagine the female ex-Pizza Parlour manager who has been head of the Oncology Department at Maldonado is relieved, she can continue drawing her salary for nothing other than smiling and fluttering her eyelashes at her sponsor: ‘No Money Pepe’.

3.1% of voters spoilt or left blank their voting slips to show there contempt for the voting system I would imagine.

Besides the honest, hard working private sector the other losers are the polling agencies. Who can possibly trust their defective systems in the future?

That’s it for me: the financial position of the country HAS been going down the drain under ‘No Money Pepe’ and Vasquez has inherited a crock of shit in that respect. It will be interesting to see if he can do anything positive towards financial probity given the fiscal drag and the disaster that is the ‘government’.
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