The candidates star in more personal scenes during the elections, marked by memories, expressions of desire and closeness to citizens.
Uruguay It mobilizes on a pleasant spring day to elect the next government and, as on all election days, the voting routine leaves funny moments, anecdotes and memories of the candidates from their most personal facets.
From breakfast for journalists to personal but also political anecdotes, election day is full of more intimate moments, which show another side of the candidates who compete at the polls for leadership in the next Uruguayan government.
General election day began with shared breakfasts under a pleasant sun —Andres Ojeda shared oatmeal pancakes with reporters, while Alvaro Delgado did his thing with scones that even the Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF) herself personally claimed, Azucena Arbeleche, when he went to visit him before voting—and then they began to prepare the lunches that are almost cabala: Yamandu Orsi with the Frente Amplista leader Marcos Carámbula; Delgado with the traditional Sunday pasta which, like the internal one, was a lasagna; and the grilled lamb that the president Luis Lacalle Pou shared with the García family for more than 20 years.
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Families, certainly, are the protagonists of election day: children crowded to greet Ojeda at the door of the Delgado school on the outskirts of the Republic Bank Club where the white candidate voted—after an hour and a half of waiting—generated friendly smiles; although three women with flags of the National Party, “three generations of white women” who waited to see the former secretary of the Presidency. Delgado’s own daughter, Pilar, had her moment of prominence when casting the mandatory vote for the first time, having the honor of, nothing more and nothing less, covering the ballot with her father’s face.
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Caravans, lines and the thousand faces of Ojeda
The caravans They also had their main role on election day: Lacalle Pou got out of the car a few blocks before the polling place to greet the enormous number of people who gathered to greet him between applause, selfies and excited comments of gratitude.
Delgado also voted among a large number of people and was even waited for by a voter from the Frente Amplio and his two dogs also characterized by the tricolor flags – although more as a form of provocation than partisan tolerance; and Ojeda took his time to take photos and sign autographs for those who came to receive him at school. Le Mennais, after a day in the gym and handing out voting sheets until the last minute.
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Although the red candidate was also seen in multiple places at the same time: different voters went to the polls with lawyer masks and one even used a Hulk costume to imitate the physique of the presidential candidate.
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Orsi, for his part, did not miss the traditional Carámbula grid, which is recovering after a small traffic accident he was involved in recently.
Source: Ambito
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