The criminal lawyer and exedil of Montevideo, Andres Ojedaconsolidates itself as the favorite to stay with the internal population of the Colorado Party (PC)since it would double the voting intention of the presidential pre-candidates Robert Silva and Gabriel Gurmendezwho led the sympathies prior to their decision to enter the electoral race.
According to the latest Opción Consultores survey, among the Colorado electorate that will surely vote in the internal elections, Ojeda has 42% of voting intentions, while Silva and Gurméndez have 23% and 20%, respectively.
These are followed by former Minister of Tourism, Tabare Vierawith 7% of the accessions, and the former vice chancellor Carolina Ache, who collects 3%. Among those surveyed, 5% assured that they do not know that they will vote or simply preferred not to answer.
The red electoral race has already left two candidates along the way after they decided to get out. First it was the turn of the former prosecutor Gustavo Zubiawho declined his candidacy in support of Ojeda, and then the former director of Telecommunications, Guzmán Acosta y Larawho did so to speak out in favor of Gurméndez.
In April, the former chancellor and leader of the PC, Ernesto Talvi, assured on Spanish TV that the PC “has returned to its liberal and progressive roots” and that “it is in a very vibrant stage of renewal.” At the same time, he praised Ojeda through social networks, stating that he “collected his political legacy” from him.
Silva, Talvi’s former presidential running mate, said in the last few hours that he does not know “who invented” that the Colorados are fragmented despite the internal competition and recalled that in the last election, the polls gave the former president of the Republic Julio María Sanguinetti with an advantage over Talvi, and then the result was the opposite.
In another order, Acosta y Lara indicated on more than one occasion that he suspects that the National Party (PN) would be “operating” within the PC internally in favor of Ojeda, who declared in 2022 that his political reference in the Uruguay is he President of the Republic Luis Lacalle Pou.
Álvaro Delgado and Yamandú Orsi are still ahead in the polls
On the other hand, the former Secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado continues to lead favoritism within the PN, while the former mayor of Canelones, Yamandu Orsidoes the same within the Broad Front (FA).
In the PN, Delgado monopolizes 63% of the sympathies among the voters who will appear in the internal elections, followed by the economist Laura Raffo with 19%, the senator Jorge Gandini with 8% and the former deputy Carlos Lafigliola, with 1%. The undecided among whites total 9%.
In the FA the situation is different, here Orsi would have a voting intention of 55%, while the mayor of Montevideo on leave, Carolina Cosse, 35%. He mayor of Salto Andrés Lima has 6%, while those who were undecided were 5%.
Source: Ambito
