Uruguay: Yamandú Orsi is New President

Yamandú Orsi, the candidate of the center-left Broad Front, has won the second round of Uruguay’s presidential election. Orsi defeated Álvaro Delgado, the candidate of the center-right National Party.

Although the counting is not yet complete, election agencies explain that the victory is without doubt in the hands of Orsi, whose first words were: “The land of equality has won.” “I will be a president who will build a more integrated country, no one will be left behind socially, economically, and politically, the country will move towards development and prosperity,” said Orsi, who praised the democratic republican system that allows for an orderly change of power, adding that there will be an open dialog with the opposition, given that “Uruguay is only one, I will be a president who will build a more integrated country,” he said.

Defeated candidate Álvaro Delgado explained in a speech he called “one of the most difficult of his life” that “we must respect the decision of a sovereign people. Today Uruguayans have decided who will occupy the presidency of the republic, and from here I want to give a big hug to the winner Yamandú Orsi.”