Uruguay vote once again, although this time definitively in the runoff 2024, who will be the next president, yeah Yamandu Orsi for him Broad Front (FA) either Alvaro Delgado for him National Party (PN); and anecdotes and curiosities could not be missing in the third election of the year: sun, selfies, cabals on a busy election day.
The 2024 runoff started very early, even earlier than expected: the former president José Mujica, who usually votes first thing in the morning, arrived 20 minutes before the polls opened vote receiving commissions (CRV)and had to wait to be able to cast his vote. He was the first to deposit the envelope — which, without a doubt, contains the ballot with the Frente Amplista formula — in his circuit and, perhaps, in the entire country.
The morning was marked by meetings and meetings. Among them, Delgado’s visit to the president himself Luis Lacalle Pou in Carrasco, before they both went to vote. “He came to give me a hug as a friend, we are always together in these,” said the president who, later, did not rule out assuming his seat in the Senate. The white candidate then received the Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF) Arbeleche Lily; and then, at the Banco República Club, he was accompanied by the chancellor Omar Paganini.
For its part, Orsi He was accompanied by his faithful companion, his dog Ramon —with whom, in addition, he shares the name, and did not want to be overshadowed by Kala, Delgado’s dog—and at noon he visited the leader Marcos Carámbula, as is usual in elections.
The “heirs” were also protagonists of the election day: Lacalle Pou voted for the last time as president along with his three children, and Violeta even said she had seen her father with “confidence” in the hours before the runoff. Furthermore, the white candidate for vice president, Valeria Ripoll, She accompanied her daughter to vote for the first time in a second round: “It’s crazy, it’s very exciting to vote for my mother in the first elections I vote for,” she said.
The case was different Andres Ojeda that, unlike what happened in the internal elections and in the first round, he came to vote alone with his thermos and his mate: his nephews, who had accompanied him in the previous instances, “abandoned him for a birthday.”
Lasagna, hummus, scones and grill
Food was also part of the first part of the intense election day, and there was no shortage of scones that Slim He approached the journalists who, very early, waited for him outside his house to take the electoral route, which, this time, had a stop at his parents’ house before going to vote. Lasagna, meanwhile, was the designated lunch in the white candidate’s family, by cabal.
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Orsi, Meanwhile, he enjoyed the traditional grill at Carámbula’s house, with the special addition of a morrón hummus that was all the rage among the guests, prepared by the wife of the historic Frente Amplista leader. Lacalle Pou, for his part, also had lamb for lunch with the García family, a tradition that has been going on for more than 20 years.
The funny anecdote featured Slim, although without realizing it: when he finished voting, he closed the envelope by running his tongue over the flap, despite signs that clearly indicated the opposite. “Do not salivate the envelope (it is not necessary),” said the printed sheets on the walls behind the screen, in an attempt to facilitate the opening of the envelopes during the counting.
Sun, gifts and promises
The high temperatures were characteristic of the day, totally opposite to what happened in the internal elections, and also marked the movement of voters, who preferred to go to vote early. In fact, at 12 o’clock 44.6% of the voters had voted, while in October only 39% had voted.
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Under the intense sun, the candidates and leaders gave the interviews, who also received gifts, in addition to dozens of greetings and requests for selfies. The most significant were the one that Lacalle Pou received from a boy, Juan, who approached on horseback and gave him a sobeo; and the one Orsi received: “when he turns eight more years old, I vote for you,” one of the children who came up to greet him promised him.
Source: Ambito
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