The head of the Buenos Aires government greeted the future Uruguayan president. The Frente Amplio candidate defeated Álvaro Delgado in the second round.
The head of the Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macri, congratulated tonight Yamandu Orsi for his victory in the runoff Uruguay in view of Alvaro Delgado. The candidate of Wide Front will be the future president of the Eastern Republic.
“Congratulations Yamandú Orsi on your election as president of the sister Eastern Republic of Uruguay. I want to wish you success in this new stage,” said Macri through a publication on the social network “X”, after Delgado accepted defeat in the second round and congratulated his opponent for the victory.
The Buenos Aires mayor took the opportunity “to send a special greeting to the Uruguayan community of the City”, whose presence “is essential for strengthening the ties between Buenos Aires and the sister country.”
The candidate of Wide Front (FA) prevailed over the applicant of the National Party (PN), Álvaro Delgado, in the second round of the presidential elections and became the new Uruguayan president.
With 81.26% of the votes counted, Orsi accumulated 942,470 votes, against 898,767 of Slimin the data upload reported by the Electoral Court. In a total of 1,343,350 votes cast, some 30,674 were blank, while some 50,869 envelopes were completely annulled, with 31,088 votes observed at the country level.
Delgado, surrounded by the other leaders of the Coalition, recognized Orsi’s victory in tonight’s runoff. He assured that “without a guilt complex, but with sadness, we can congratulate whoever won and do so sincerely and from the heart, with detachment and with a very republican sense.”
The president-elect has already been congratulated by the current president, Luis Lacalle Pou, within the framework of a transition that will begin in the coming days and is expected to be orderly.
Source: Ambito
