Election day began at 8 in the morning and ended at 7:30 p.m. The first exit poll will be known after 8:30 p.m.
After an extensive day, which began at 8, the shops closed at 7:30 p.m. voting centers and the counting began, with great expectations for the results of the elections 2024,that can consecrate the next president or at least the contenders of the runoff.
On an electoral Sunday that was lived calmly, participation remains within what was expected, while now the results of the candidate vote and also the fate of the candidates will slowly begin to be revealed. plebiscites, in elections that had some 2.7 million citizens qualified in more than 7,000 circuits.
By 7:30 p.m., the Electoral Court reported a participation of 88.1% of the electoral roll, in line with the usual estimates, in the order of 90%, which contrasts strongly with what happened in the internal ones, where it was the lowest historical figure.
The elections opened this Sunday without problems and with a lot of movement in the streets, especially in Montevideo, while they quickly began to fill with citizens, who defined the formula of their choice, as well as the members of the Parliament, the popular consultation on social security that promoted the PIT-CNT and that of the night raids that the government endorsed.
The color of the candidates on election day
Within the framework of a day without incident, there were all kinds of funny moments and anecdotes. Many of them had to do with candidates, as happened with the Colorado Party, Andrés Ojeda, who shared oatmeal pancakes with journalists at the start of the day.
Continuing with the gastronomic theme, the applicant for the National Party, Álvaro Delgado, contributed scones, which were even personally claimed by the Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF), Azucena Arbeleche, when he went to visit him before voting.
In it Broad Front, They also began to prepare the lunches that are almost cabala, like that of the candidate Yamandu Orsi with the Frente Amplista leader Marcos Carámbula. Meanwhile, Delgado did it with the traditional Sunday pasta which, like the internal one, was a lasagna, while there was also the grilled lamb that the president Luis Lacalle Pou shared with the García family for more than 20 years.
Source: Ambito
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