(24 Nov 2024)
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Montevideo, Uruguay – 24 November 2024
1. Various of Álvaro Delgado, presidential candidate of the National Party, voting
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Álvaro Delgado, presidential candidate of the National Party:
“We always keep what we say. Without insults or disqualification (during the campaign) because the path that one chooses to gain, is the path that allows you to govern for all and I, starting from tomorrow, want to be president of all Uruguayans, of those who voted and didn’t vote for me today.”
3. Delgado with supporter
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Edison Merlon, National Party voter:
“It was governed (by the National Party) for five years much better than it was governed in 15 years of the Broad Front. Five years is a way of saying, because with the pandemic there were less. But we count the pandemic for the good management that Delgado did.”
5. Person arriving to vote
6. Person voting
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Olivera, Broad Front voter:
“I want the Broad Front to win again because they tried to give solutions to the workers. Ultimately, for me, in Uruguay, above all because sometimes in other countries it is different, in Uruguay the left, is on the side of the worker and the right always benefits the wealthier ones.”
8. People voting
STORYLINE:
Uruguayans went to the polls Sunday for a second round of voting to choose their next president, with the conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition locked in a close runoff after failing to win an outright majority in last month’s vote.
The staid election has turned into a hard-fought race between Álvaro Delgado, the incumbent party’s candidate, and Yamandú Orsi from the Broad Front, a coalition of leftist and center-left parties that governed for 15 years until the 2019 victory of center-right President Luis Lacalle Pou.
The Broad Front oversaw the legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage and the sale of marijuana in the small, laid-back South American nation of 3.4 million people.
Orsi’s Broad Front took 44% of the vote while Delgado’s National Party won 27% in the first round of voting Oct. 27.
But the other conservative parties that make up the government coalition — in particular, the Colorado Party — notched 20% of the vote collectively, enough to give Delgado an edge over his challenger this time around.
Both candidates are appealing to voter angst over a surge in violent crime that has shaken a nation long regarded as one of the region’s most safe and stable.
Delgado promises tough-on-crime policies and a new maximum-security prison while Orsi advocates a community-oriented approach to crime prevention.
AP Video by Diego Casal
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