Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina Prepare for Sunday's Elections

Supporters of Uruguay's presidential candidate Daniel Martinez of Frente Amplio attend his
closing campaign rally ahead of Sunday's presidential election, in Montevideo, Uruguay
October 23, 2019. | Photo: Reuters

Published 25 October 2019 (6 hours 45 minutes ago)


Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina have started the electoral prohibition period as voters are preparing for the elections of new leaders on Sunday.

In Uruguay, the period started on Thursday at midnight in accordance to the 1989 law number 16.019.

Voters will decide whether to extend the center-left Broad Front party's popular presidential administrations to a fourth term or to turn power over to the conservative opposition.

The conservative opposition, the National Party, nominated Senator Luis Lacalle Pou as its presidential candidate. The Broad Front, led currently by incumbent President Tabaré Vázquez, inelegible to run again, nominated former Montevideo mayor Daniel Martinez.

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Daniel Martinez stands next to Senator Lucía Topolansky Saavedra, left side of photo, wife of former President José Mujica. Former President Mujica and Lucía Topolansky, and current President Tabaré Vázquez were all militant workers of the resistance against a brutal right-wing dictatorship.



Daniel Martinez and his running mate, Graciela Villar



Daniel Martinez, while still a young militant, working against the dictatorship, on the right side of the photo.



Tabaré Vázquez and Jose Mujica



President Jose Mujica and his wife arriving in their VW, which they continue to drive.

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Who are the main candidates for Uruguayan presidency?
By Santiago Carbone

23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2019

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DANIEL MARTINEZ (BROAD FRONT)

The Broad Front candidate is 62-year-old industrial engineer whose political career includes being president of the state-run Ancap petroleum company from 2005-2008; industry, energy and mining minister from 2008-2009 and mayor of Montevideo, a post he occupied from 2015-2019, when he left that position to run for president.

With the slogan "La Ola Esperanza" (The Wave of Hope), Martinez is seeking to convince voters of the need for the FA to obtain a fourth mandate to govern the country and is placing emphasis on the progress obtained during its 15 years at the helm of the small Atlantic coast nation sandwiched between Brazil to the north and Argentina to the south.

His relationship with the leftist coalition has blossomed since the Socialist Party, which he joined in 1973 (the year that Uruguay's civilian-military dictatorship came to power, governing until 1985) and within which his candidacy has surged.

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