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Montevideo, Uruguay – 25 November 2024
1. Supporters chanting UPSOUND (Spanish): "If this is not the people where are the people" as Yamandú Orsi, Uruguay’s president-elect, arrives by car at the ranch of former president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica
2. Supporter carrying photo of Mujica
3. Orsi exits the car and greets supporters
4. Various of Orsi entering Mujica’s property
5. Supporters chant UPSOUND (Spanish): "You can feel it, it’s president"
6. Orsi after leaving Mujica’s house
7. Orsi posing with supporters and a photo of Mujica
8. Various of Orsi signing a flag
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yamandú Orsi, Uruguay’s president-elect of the center-left coalition Broad Front:
"With respect to the region, I am profoundly integrative. In a world that is closed, even more, you must maintain a good bond with the region because in a month everything can change. The world is sitting on a powder keg."
10. Orsi posing for photos with supporters
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yamandú Orsi, Uruguay’s president-elect of the center-left coalition Broad Front:
"We are four countries in this corner of the world, with one of them like Brazil that is asking for a place at the world level. But, once again, in a world that today surprises us with new missiles and possible escalation of war, you have to be clear to hold on tight with your neighbours because they don’t know how this continues."
12. Orsi leaving by car
STORYLINE:
Uruguay’s president-elect Yamandú Orsi said on Monday he will prioritize relations with neighbouring countries a day after winning the election.
Orsi said good regional bonds were important because "in a month everything can change. The world is sitting on a powder keg."
He made the statements while visiting Broad Front leader and former president José Pepe Mujica at his ranch in the outskirts of Montevideo.
Orsi and Mujica’s meeting was held in private.
The former president, now 88 of age, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in May.
Orsi, Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, became the country’s new president in a tight runoff Sunday.
The presidential candidate of the conservative coalition that has governed Uruguay for the past five years, Álvaro Delgado, conceded defeat on Sunday after a tight runoff election, as the South American nation joined others around the world in rebuking the incumbent party in a year of landmark elections.
With more than 91% of the votes counted, Orsi had 49.56% support compared to Delgado’s 46.17% in an election in which nearly 90% of voters turned out, according to preliminary data released by the Electoral Court.
The rest were blank votes or non-voters.
While failing to entice apathetic young voters and generating extraordinary indecision, Uruguay’s lackluster electoral campaigns steered clear of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere in the world, like in the United States and neighbouring Argentina.
Orsi’s victory was the latest sign that simmering discontent over post-pandemic economic malaise favours anti-incumbent candidates.
But unlike elsewhere in the world, Orsi is a moderate who plans no radical changes and agrees with his opponent on key issues like combating childhood poverty and cracking down on organized crime.
Despite his promise to lead a “new left” in Uruguay, his platform resembles the mix of market-friendly policies and welfare programs that characterized the Broad Front’s tenure from 2005-2020.
AP Video by Victor R. Caivano
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