The Frente Amplio candidate, Yamandú Orsi, has won the presidential elections held this Sunday in Uruguay, beating the candidate of the ruling National Party, Álvaro Delgado, with almost 50 percent of the votes, according to information from the Electoral Court.
According to the organization’s data published on its website, with all the votes counted, just over 95,500 votes separate the two candidates. Orsi and his running mate, Carolina Cosse, received 1,196,798 votes, while the National Party duo of Álvaro Delgado and Valeria Ripoll obtained 1,101,296 votes.
After the first results were known, the president-elect gave a speech to the militants of his party in a “night of much gratitude.”
“Let us understand that there is another part of our people who, like us some time ago, today have a different feeling. These people will also have to help us build a better country, we also need them. The message cannot be other than to continue embracing the flags, the ideas, because a better country is built from the debate of ideas, and above all, a democratic republic with a future,” she said in a message collected by the Uruguayan newspaper ‘El País’
Likewise, Orsi has assured that she will build “a more integrated society, where in addition, despite the differences, no one will ever be left behind from the economic, social and political point of view.”
Along these lines, the vice president-elect, Cosse, has indicated that they will “respect all opinions” and “make everyone’s opinions respected.”
“Today begins a path of peace, of tolerance, a safe path to the future. And we have come to unite. They have wanted to divide us, they have told us that our Frente Amplio is the worst in history, and we are proud of our Frente Amplio, of this Frente Amplio,” he declared before the militants gathered to celebrate the electoral victory.
Cosse has sent her “most respectful greetings” to the “compatriots” who have not voted for the Frente Amplio ticket, assuring that they will not hold “grudges.”
The candidate of the ruling Partido Nacional, Álvaro Delgado, has recognized the victory of his rival, whom he has congratulated and sent a “strong hug,” and has addressed his voters in “one of the most difficult speeches” of “(his) life,” according to the aforementioned newspaper.
“I said it before. The path we chose to win was the one that would later validate us to go and seek agreements and we acted accordingly,” he said, while asserting that “a new era was born in Uruguay where no one has a majority,” taking into account the tight results.
“It is one thing to lose the elections and another to be defeated, we are not defeated. Here there is a republican coalition made up of five parties and that is here to stay,” he declared.
The President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, has already called Orsi to congratulate him as president-elect and to “put himself at his service and begin the transition as soon as he deems it pertinent,” he reported in a brief message on his account on the social network X.
