There are less than two weeks until internal in Uruguay, and the party that has least defined its possible sole candidate is the Colorado Party: not only because of what the voting intention surveys indicate prior to election day, but also because of the possibility that the Colorados have that the person who runs in October will not be the one who wins on June 30. In this context, how do we talk about presidential formula of the party?
He Colorado Party presents several differences with respect to the other political spaces in these elections. On the one hand, it is the one with the largest number of pre-candidates, with a total of six who would reach the end of the race. Likewise, it is the most “contested” internal of all, and for which there is still no clear definition based on voting intention surveys, despite the fact that Andres Ojeda has grown quite a bit in the latest measurements — a fact to take into account considering that it is the one with the least experience in the party and that it faces leaders who, in addition, have the support of leaders such as that of the former president Julio María Sanguinetti.
But the main point of differentiation is that the Colorados play with different internal rules: their regulations do not establish that the winner of the primary elections must be the sole candidate for the general elections, but rather that the final decision rests with the National party conventionwhose members emerge from the same electoral contest.
Although the agreement for these elections is that no other result will be used than that of the polls in June, there is no shortage of voices calling for using the tool that the Colorado Party, and that the Convention be the one that decides the final names on the voting sheets.
In this context, some of the pre-candidates are already beginning to speculate about the way in which the formula for October should be proposed.
The sacred? internal order
The pre-candidate and former Minister of Tourism recently expressed himself in this regard, Tabare Viera, who said that he sees it as “logical” that the presidential formula is headed by whoever comes first in the internal elections; while it is completed with the person who comes in second place.
“It is still an issue that has not been decided. It is desirable that that night be resolved and proclaimed,” he stated in this regard this Tuesday night at a press conference, when asked about the possible elaboration of the final presidential formula.
“Having already agreed on the Colorado Party that the one who wins, wins, the most logical thing is that that same night we end with an announced formula, which would be the one who wins, wins, and the second one the vice presidential candidate“Viera said about it.
With this, Viera stated that, in his view, “the formula will be whatever it is.” “It is desirable that it can be parity, but in the party there is no provision that requires this,” he added.
The insistence on party agreement regarding who wins, wins is due to the fact that the uncertainty regarding the percentages that each pre-candidate could reach is transferred, in turn, to the strength that the person who comes out first in the race may have. terms of the formation of the National Convention that decides the final candidate.
The fear that is not completely resolved is that the candidate who wins will have a relatively low percentage of the total, and the vote will be very distributed. And, therefore, his appointment for October is at risk. Could this be the scenario if Ojeda wins?
Source: Ambito
