Orsi wins the presidential elections in Uruguay, with almost 50 percent of the votes

MADRID 25 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The candidate of the Frente Amplio, Yamandú Orsi, has won the presidential elections held this Sunday in Uruguay, beating the candidate of the ruling National Party, Álvaro Delgado, with nearly 50 percent of the support, according to information from the Electoral Court.

According to the organization’s data published on its website, with the total vote 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 supports.

After knowing the first results, the president-elect gave a speech to the militants of his party on a “night of many thanks.”

“Let us understand that there is another part of our people who, like us a while 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 that they follow embracing the flags, the ideas, because from the debate of ideas a better country is built, and above all, a democratic republic with a future,” he said in a message collected by the Uruguayan newspaper ‘El País’.

Likewise, Orsi has assured that he will build “a more integrated society, where, despite the differences, no one can ever be left behind from an economic, social and political point of view.”

Along these lines, the vice president-elect, Cosse, has indicated that they are going to “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 come to unite. They have wanted to divide us, they have told us that our Broad Front is the worst in history, and we are proud of our Broad Front , of this Frente Amplio”, he declared before the militants gathered to celebrate the electoral victory.

Cosse has sent his “most respectful greetings” to the “compatriots” who have not voted for the Frente Amplio formula, assuring that they will not hold “resentment.”

The candidate of the ruling National Party, Álvaro Delgado, has recognized the victory of his rival, whom he congratulated and sent a “big 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 validated us later to go and seek agreements and we acted accordingly,” he pointed out while asserting that “in Uruguay a new time was born where no one has a majority.” taking into account the tight results.

“One thing is to lose the elections and another is 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 command and begin the transition as soon as he understands it is pertinent,” he reported in a brief message on his account. social network