Uruguay: Orsi’s Main Challenge
The nation’s new president will spend more time and energy managing his core supporters than dealing with his political opponents.
On March 1, Yamandú Orsi of the left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition will be inaugurated as Uruguay’s next president. The former mayor of Canelones, the country’s second-wealthiest district after Montevideo, ran on a pledge to reduce crime and maintain continuity in sound economic policy. Early in the campaign, Orsi chose the renowned and moderate economist Gabriel Oddone as his economy minister, helping to attract centrist and undecided voters in the runoff against the center-right coalition’s Álvaro Delgado. Orsi’s coalition secured a narrow majority in the Senate (16 out of...
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