(27 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canelones, Uruguay – 27 October 2024
1. Frente Amplio presidential candidate Yamandú Orsi arrives to vote
2. Various of Orsi voting
3. Supporter hugging Orsi
4. Supporters chanting UPSOUND (Spanish) "President, president"
5. Orsi and supporters
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yamandú Orsi, Frente Amplio presidential candidate:
"Uruguay has had the happiness for 40 uninterrupted years, I was going to say the luck, the happiness that our citizens can elect their rulers. It seems obvious, but in today’s world, it is a beautiful privilege."
7. Various of elderly woman voting
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yamandú Orsi, Frente Amplio presidential candidate:
"Political parties should have minimum levels of agreement on issues such as childhood, child poverty, education and security."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Montevideo, Uruguay – 27 October 2024
9. Voters arriving
10. Former Uruguayan President Jose "Pepe" Mujica arriving to vote ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
11. Mujica voting
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose "Pepe" Mujica, Former Uruguayan President :
"If the young people don’t catch on (with politics) we are fried (done). If they don’t catch on, it’s because we don’t make them fall in love. It’s because we suck."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canelones, Uruguay – 27 October 2024
13. Uruguayan flag
14. People in line to vote
15. People voting
16. Voting center
STORYLINE:
Voters in the small South American nation of Uruguay headed to the polls to choose a new president on Sunday, in a race between two moderates that defies regional trends of bitter division and democratic erosion.
The contest between Uruguay’s incumbent conservative coalition and its challenger, a center-left alliance, got underway with some 2.7 million eligible voters also casting ballots for Parliament and a contentious referendum on overhauling the social security system.
With the candidates in broad agreement over many issues, no one expects the presidential vote to herald drastic change in this nation long considered a model democracy and bastion of stability in the region.
While in neighboring Brazil and Argentina, voters recently vented their rage at the status quo, Uruguay’s electorate remains largely satisfied with the government’s business-friendly policies and the economy’s steady growth. The current center-right president, Luis Lacalle Pou, enjoys a 50% approval rating.
The presidential campaigns have played out without the vitriol or personal attacks seen elsewhere, such as the United States, Argentina or Brazil.
As constitutional term limits bar President Lacalle Pou from running for a second consecutive term, the governing Partido Nacional party’s candidate is Álvaro Delgado, 55, a congressman and Lacalle Pou’s former chief of staff, who started his career as a veterinarian.
His main challenger is Yamandú Orsi, 57, a center-left former mayor and history teacher with humble roots from the Frente Amplio (or Broad Front) coalition, which governed for 15 years before Lacalle Pou’s 2019 victory.
From 2005-2020, Frente Amplio oversaw progressive laws, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Uruguay became the first country to legalize cannabis for recreational use and developed one of the world’s greenest grids, powered by 98% renewable energy.
The latest polls show Orsi in a comfortable lead at 44%, but not winning outright, which would send the country to a run-off on Nov. 24.
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