Uruguay Chooses Leftist Yamandú Orsi as President in Historic Election
Leftist candidate Yamandú Orsi has won Uruguay 's presidency in a closely contested runoff election. Orsi's win ushers in a return of the Broad Front, the party that governed for 15 consecutive years until the 2019 election of center-right National Party President Luis Lacalle Pou.
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The election was free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere, like the United States and neighboring Argentina.
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Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate Yamandú Orsi becomes country's new president
Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, became the country’s new president in a tight runoff election that ousted the conservative governing coalition
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