The return of Broad Front (FA) to power opens an intense, although brief, period of political negotiations both within that force and within the Coalitionwhich has yet to assimilate the blow.
The resolution of runoff 2024 surprised everyone. Not so much because of the final numbers, but because of the speed at which it was resolved. The outcome left almost no room for the typical “rosqueos”, on one side and the other, that accompany the concern of the electoral delay.
It was surgical news for Álvaro Delgado and the Republican Coalition. There were leaders of the rest of the coalition parties who had not yet arrived at the headquarters of Bouelvard Artigas when on TV the pollsters warned that Orsi triumphed with an irreversible trend.
A hasty reaction was then imposed. The pace was set by the president himself Luis Lacalle Pou who left before 9 p.m. Executive Tower where I was going to wait for the election results. Everything was already defined.
Delgado took the stage supported by Andres Ojeda, Pablo Mieres, Eduardo Lust and Guido Manini Ríosand he spent a good part of his defeat speech trying to ratify the foundations of a coalition whose good health remains to be seen.
That of defeat is unknown territory for a political alliance that was forged in the fire of winning electorally and whose only exercise of coexistence was in the government.
The questions are imposed. Who will lead it now that Delgado lost? Ojeda disputed that position and will remain active from Senatebut he has his own power struggles in the Colorado Party (PC). Lacalle Pou himself raised the possibility of taking over his bank, something that many, in these first hours of post-election analysis, take as a fact.
Can cohesion be maintained? The waywards of Open Town Hall (CA) They insisted again last night that the coalition in the opposition role makes no sense. Maybe there will be a last breath that will keep her as such until the departmental elections of May, where a motto was presented in three departments. Only time will tell.
He Wide FrontOn the other hand, it will promptly open internal negotiations to form the government of Yamandu Orsi. It will be accelerated hours to finish shaping underlying dialogues.
The former mayor of Cannelloni set the tone in a sensitive area such as the economy, appointing at the end of September Gabriel Oddoneas head of the MEF. It was not an easy path and voices dissatisfied with its moderate tone persist. Alejandro “Pacha” Sánchez He will be your Secretary of the Presidency. This is his campaign manager, a strong man from the MPP and trustworthy Jose Mujicawhose return to decision-making policy deserves a separate chapter.
The job of Orsi and his team will be that of the tightrope walker, with more intransigent sectors pulling the rope. The FA gave a first example of managing these internal tensions very early when, in February, it confirmed that the presidential formula would be made up of the first and second of the internal ones. Complied and Carolina Cosse She will be the vice president of Uruguay and the head of the Senate from March 1.
It is true that the Frente Amplio, in its 15 years of government, had negotiation and internal agreements. But equally true is that this occurred under powerful leadership that the party no longer has.
Source: Ambito
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