Tag: Frente Amplio

• Tuesday, April 12th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  763 Uruguayans volunteered to fight for Argentina during Falklands conflict, reveals Senate bill

  

  Senators from the Uruguayan opposition coalition Frente Amplio are sponsoring a declaration in support of Argentina and its Falkland Islands' claim, recalling at the same time that 763 Uruguayans, from a very miscellaneous background, had volunteered to join the Argentine Army during the South Atlantic conflict to combat Britain.

• Tuesday, January 4th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  New Uruguayan FA leader to strengthen ties with leftwing forces abroad

  

  Uruguayan Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) newly-elected leader Fernando Pereira's has announced his international agenda which includes meetings with Chile's President-elect Gabriel Boric and Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, whose return to the Planalto Palace seems unstoppable.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 23:17 UTC

  There will be referendum! Uruguayan electoral court validates enough signatures to hold it

  

  Uruguay will finally hold a referendum against 135 articles of the so-called Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), which has been a cornerstone of the administration of current President Luis Lacalle Pou, it was announced Wednesday in Montevideo.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Uruguay's Congress hit by coronavirus infections

  

  A few Uruguayan lawmakers tested positive for SARS-Cov-2 forcing 48 people from the national Congress to go into isolation, it was reported Monday.

• Thursday, July 8th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay's opposition files for referendum against emergency law

  

  Uruguayan opposition politicians are ready to submit a petition for the partial repeal of the government's Urgent Consideration Law (LUC).

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Chile's Constitutional Convention hopes to gets started this Wednesday after numerous technical issues

  

  Chile's Constitutional Assembly is finally set to start its historic sessions Wednesday at 10 am local time in Santiago, following last-minute problems earlier this week.

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Uruguay's twice president Tabare Vazquez dies: kilometers of vehicles followed the funeral procession

  

  Two times former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez died early morning Sunday in Montevideo at the age of 80 after suffering from lung cancer and pancreatic metastasis. By early afternoon and following on the family's wishes Vazquez was buried in a private ceremony at the La Teja cemetery, the working neighborhood where he grew up.

• Monday, November 25th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Uruguay's presidential runoff results delayed because of the very tight results

  

  Uruguay Sunday's presidential runoff results have been so tight that the Electoral Court will only make a definitive announcement sometime late this week after it has completed counting all votes, including some 34.000, classified as “observed”. This is because the difference between the two candidates is some 29.000 votes.

• Saturday, November 23rd 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Uruguay Sunday's presidential runoff, a multicolor power switching with strong winds of change

  

  This Sunday 2.7 million Uruguayans will cast their ballots in the presidential runoff, which according to all opinion poll forecasts, will have Luis Lacalle Pou, the leader of an opposition multicolor alliance as head of the Executive next March, but equally significant, power switching, it will mark the end of fifteen years of almost undisputed predominance of a catch-all coalition, Broad Front, which ruled South America's smallest country for three consecutive five-year mandates.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 23:41 UTC

  Uruguay presidential elections: Lacalle Pou would widely win, according to polls

  

  After a long election campaign, Uruguayans live the last days before the second round of the presidential elections, which will take place on Sunday, November 24. The latest polls before the ballotage positions the nationalist Luis Lacalle Pou as the next president of the country, breaking the hegemony of the left that the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) imposed in the last 15 years.