REACTION: Orsi and Delgado Head to Uruguay’s Presidential Runoff
By
AQ Editors
The center-left and center-right candidates will face off in the November 24 vote.
With crime and the high cost of living among voters' top concerns, Uruguayans voted on October 27 for president and Congress and on a controversial pension plebiscite. Former mayor of Canelones department Yamandú Orsi, of the leftist Frente Amplio coalition, placed first with 44% of votes but did not secure a wide enough margin to avoid a November 24 runoff with Álvaro Delgado of the governing center-right Partido Nacional, according to local media. Delgado, a former chief of Cabinet to President Luis Lacalle Pou, clinched 27% of the vote and beat out lawyer Andrés Ojeda of the...
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