The teams of the presidential candidates, Yamandu Orsi (Wide Front) and Alvaro Delgado (National Party) approached the start of the vote counting in the 2024 runoff with optimism and with the expectation that the next president of the Republic will be known tonight.
Sources from Frente Amplio were confident that the difference in favor of Orsi was somewhat higher than what the voting intention surveys projected prior to the ban that began on Thursday. Although the candidate’s team chose to show caution and focus on the fact that the percentage that separates them from the white candidate does not matter, but rather that victory is assured.
On the National Party’s side, the bet is to surprise and achieve a coup that leads Delgado to succeed Luis Lacalle Pou. There is a lot of conviction in the movement of voters who came from abroad and in those who voted in this second round, but had not done so in October, commented from the candidate’s team. Scope.
The attention tonight is on the scrutiny carried out by the Electoral Court and the number of observed votessince if the distance between Orsi and Delgado is less than them, you will have to wait until the official departmental count, which will take until Thursday.
From the Electoral Court they explained to Scope that the first data entered into the official database are usually from inland districts, where the circuits have fewer qualified voters, which allows the count to be carried out more quickly. That is, it corresponds to the so-called rural vote.
Then the votes from the minutes of urban areas will begin to be entered, with the metropolitan area being the one with the largest number of voters. Hence, throughout the hours that the scrutiny takes, Orsi and Delgado can alternate leading the ballot.
Source: Ambito
