Tag: Uruguay elections 2024

• Monday, November 18th 2024 - 08:40 UTC

  Uruguayan presidential candidates hold key debate one week before runoff

  

  At a time when all polls indicate that former Canelones Mayor (Governor) Yamandú Orsi of the opposition Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) is the frontrunner for Uruguay's Nov. 24 runoff against Álvaro Delgado of the ruling National Party and Multicolor coalition, both candidates held the mandatory debate on Sunday evening, during which they reviewed human development, security, economy, knowledge, and labor.

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• Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 09:43 UTC

  Delgado and Orsi to hold presidential debate on Nov. 17

  

  Uruguay's Presidential candidates Álvaro Delgado and Yamandú Orsi will be debating on Nov. 17, one week before the runoff, it was announced Tuesday in Montevideo. The eristics duel will be split into five blocks, it was also agreed by the two campaign teams.

• Monday, October 21st 2024 - 10:56 UTC

  Uruguay: Mujica makes last public political appearance

  

  Battling esophageal cancer and age, former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica made what is believed to be his last public appearance this past weekend by showing up at a rally of “La 609” or MPP, the Broad Front (FA) faction he once founded. “Goodbye, I give you my heart,” Mujica stressed on Saturday during a campaign closing event a week before the Oct. 27 elections.

• Monday, October 14th 2024 - 17:47 UTC

  In a dull campaign and dull candidates, Uruguay votes new president and parliament on Sunday October 27

  

  In less than two weeks time, Sunday 27 October, 2,8 million Uruguayan voters will be electing a new president, and a new parliament, 99 Lower House members and 30 Senators for the 2025/2030 period.

• Monday, October 14th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  Swing voters to prove decisive in Uruguayan elections, poll finds

  

  According to a Cifra survey released this weekend in Montevideo, Uruguay has 11% of swing voters who could end up pivotal in Oct. 27's presidential elections. Hence, political parties should focus on winning them over, the pollsters underlined. Cifra Director Mariana Pomiés underlined that this number could tip the scale at the end of the day.

• Monday, October 14th 2024 - 09:07 UTC

  Colorado candidate picks wrong analogy to describe Uruguay's relationship with Mercosur

  

  Colorado Party presidential candidate Andrés Ojeda chose a controversial analogy this weekend to refer to Uruguay's situation within the South American Common Market (Mercosur). He claimed it was affecting his country's credibility not to kill any hostage when hijacking airplanes.

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 09:48 UTC

  Orsi and Cosse reach out to Uruguayan voters living in Argentina

  

  Uruguay's presidential hopeful Yamandú Orsi of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) and his running mate Carolina Cosse were in Buenos Aires this week in a campaign maneuver seeking to lure residents in neighboring Argentina to “cross the pond” and vote for him in the Oct. 27 elections.

• Sunday, November 19th 2023 - 15:14 UTC

  Uruguay: pre-candidates for presidency announced

  

  Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado of the ruling Multicolor coalition and specifically from within the Aire Fresco movement of the Nationalist Party (White), announced Saturday that he would be resigning his job to focus on his bid to become the next head of state of a country where back-to-back reelection is not allowed.