The president Luis Lacalle Pou congratulated Yamandu Orsi for his victory against Alvaro Delgado in it runoff 2024, echoing the previous results exhibited by the consulting firms and while the provisional scrutiny of the Electoral Court.
“I called Orsi to congratulate him as president-elect of our country and to put myself at his command and begin the transition as soon as he understands it is relevant,” said the president on his X account, prior to the recognition of the white candidate himself.
In this way, regardless of the political sign of each, the president made himself available to the Frente Amplista leader with whom he had several disagreements last year, which worsened in full election campaign.
Even beyond a meeting between the two in the coming days, there is the possibility that they will have their first big date together between December 5 and 6, when the summit of the Mercosur in Uruguay, the last of Lacalle Pou in the Presidency.
The Coalition quickly recognized Orsi’s victory
The recognition of Orsi as the next president after winning the runoff 2024 He did not wait in the official ranks. Delgado, the defeated leader of the night, stated that “without a guilt complex, but with sadness, we can congratulate whoever won and do so with sincerity and from the heart, with detachment and with a very republican sense.”
“Elections are won and lost, it is one thing to lose the elections and another to be defeated. We are not defeated!” warned the former Secretary of the Presidency regarding the future.
Previously, Guido Manini Ríos, of Open Town Hall, He was one of the first to acknowledge it publicly. The senator congratulated former mayor of Canelones and referred to the future of the Republican Coalition. “There is no point in a coalition to oppose something,” he noted, although he said that the ruling party would continue “in fact,” but “each party” will retain its own identity.
The PN senator had also done it via X, Sebastian Da Silva, although in a more concise way. “To the country what it needs, to the government what it deserves. Congratulations,” he expressed.
Source: Ambito
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