Yamandú Orsi promised to be “the president who calls again and again for national dialogue to find the best solutions.” This 57-year-old history professor will succeed President Luis Lacalle Pou on March 1, 2025, who has an approval level close to 50%, but is constitutionally prevented from immediate re-election.
“I will be the president of national growth,” announced the candidate Yamandú Orsi, of the Frente Amplio, after winning the Uruguayan elections this Sunday the 24th and proclaiming that he will resort to dialogue to find the solutions that the country needs.
A triumphant Yamandú Orsi thus addressed on Sunday night the thousands of militants who gathered at the electoral command to await the results of the second round of the presidential elections, in which he won, with 94.4% of the votes. voting circuits counted, a total of 1,123,420 votes compared to 1,042,001 for Ávaro Delgado, the Electoral Court reported.
With Orsi, the Frente Amplio aspired to return to the government that it lost in 2020, after three consecutive terms, one of them under the leadership of Pepe Mujica (2010-2015), 89 years old and recovering from esophageal cancer.
«I am going to be the president who calls again and again for national dialogue to find the best solutions. Of course, with our proposals, but also listening well to what others tell us,” he emphasized.
And he added: “I am going to be the president who builds a more integrated society, a more integrated country, where, despite even the differences, no one will be able to be left behind from an economic, social and political point of view.”
Orsi assured that the victory achieved this Sunday began in the first round of the presidential elections and the parliamentary elections held on October 27.
In the period 2025-2030, the Frente Amplio will have the majority in the Chamber of Senators, while no force will have it in the Chamber of Deputies.
One day after forty years since the first election after the civil-military dictatorship (1973-1985), the president-elect celebrated democracy and greeted “those who embrace another idea and other flags.”
“We have differences in our thinking (but), there should never be a place for grievance or disqualification,” he emphasized.
«Today we are very happy, those of us who embrace these flags. Today those of us who recognize that we won were very happy. But let’s understand, citizens of my political force and those who accompany me, there is another part of our people who, like us a while ago, today have a different feeling,” he stressed.
And the political project of the future ruler of the Frente Amplio needs the participation of that part of Uruguayan society to build “a better country,” he added.
For her part, the elected vice president of Uruguay, Carolina Cosse, celebrated that the country’s democracy “is in good health” and that this is a triumph “for all Uruguayans.”
«Today the people decided, today the path to the future of Uruguay begins, the path to hope. Joy will return to be entangled with your voice. Today begins a path of peace, tolerance, a safe path to the future. We come to unite,” he emphasized.
Shortly before it became known that the partial scrutiny gave victory to Orsi – announced in the vote projections of several consultancies – the current president, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the official candidate, Álvaro Delgado, greeted Orsi for his victory in the elections. urns.
This 57-year-old history professor will succeed President Lacalle Pou on March 1, 2025, who has an approval level close to 50%, but is constitutionally prevented from immediate re-election.
Orsi, former mayor of the department of Canelones, came into the race at the head of all previous polls, but closely followed by Delgado, by a difference that was within the margins of error.
With information from EFE agency and Week
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