The Campaign facing the internal elections passes through its final stretch eight days before the elections that will define the sole candidates of each party who, in October, will compete for the presidency of Uruguay for the period 2025-2030. In this context, the pre-candidates prepare their closing events before the electoral ban.
The first to close her campaign in recent days will be the pre-candidate of the Broad Front (FA), Carolina Cosse. It will do so this Saturday from 6:30 p.m. at the Aguada Athletic Clublocated at Avenida General San Martín 2261.
Likewise, from 4 p.m. Plaza de las Pioneras, called for a citizen participation event under the name “We women go to the front”: the idea is that women who come can try on the presidential sash. “If one arrives, we all arrive,” says the call, exploiting the feminist side of the mayor of Montevideo in license use.
For his part, his opponent and leader in voting intention surveys, Yamandu Orsi, will officially close its campaign on Sunday at noon with a great display in terms of movements: different caravans will leave from Montevideo and cannelloni to arrive, around 12, at Gymnasium of the San Isidro de Las Piedras School. The former Canarian mayor will have his moment on stage from approximately 12:30.
Finally, the Frente Amplio will have a great act of unity, in line with the message it has been giving regarding its internal affairs, on Wednesday the 26th, in which the three pre-candidates of the left coalition will be present: Orsi, Cosse and Andrés Lima .
On the side of National Party (PN), Laura Raffo will close its campaign on Wednesday the 26th at the headquarters of Add (Plaza Independencia 749 Bis), the political space that brings together the sectors that support his candidacy, from 6:30 p.m. and with a live 8 Ball show. Alvaro Delgado, Meanwhile, it will also put an end to this first stage prior to the internal elections on Wednesday, although there are still no details regarding time and place.
The latest voting intention trends
According to the latest voting intention survey by Equipos Consultores, the situations are different in each space: in the National Party, the figure of Alvaro Delgado continues to grow and is the wide favorite, while in the Broad Front, Yamandu Orsi takes a light advantage and the trend in the Colorado Party (PC) shows to Andres Ojeda at the head, although within the framework of a complex and extensive offer for the elections 2024.
The survey was carried out between May 29 and the 13th of this month, combining an in-person and telephone methodology with more than 1,100 Uruguayans 18 years and older. Consulting Teams investigated people who are “close” or “very close” to each party and also used the category of “politicized voters”, which becomes relevant mainly in the FA.
In it P.N., Slim It has an enormous advantage (which is growing) over the rest, with 64% of the adhesions. The former Secretary of the Presidency is supported by Raffo, with 25%; and the senator Jorge Gandini, with 11%.
Instead, in the FA the difference between Orsi and Carolina Cosse has been reducing, although the former mayor of cannelloni obtains 58% of the preferences, against 37% of the reference of Montevideo and 5% of Andres Lima. Consulting Teams observed that it is a “volatile” internal, so the higher or lower levels of effective mobilization of voters will be important, in a base scenario that favors the referent of the MPP.
The most complex internal one is that of the PC due to the multiplicity of candidates. Yes ok Ojeda adds 45% of the preferences, beating Robert Silva (twenty-one%), Tabare Viera (16%) and Gabriel Gurmendez (13%), the consulting firm warned that the differences “are not statistically significant, so it is not possible to affirm the relative order between them.” In any case, the authors clarified that “the most marked trend in recent months has been the growth of Ojeda.”
Source: Ambito
