In the command of Wide Front (FA) It seemed that the night in the NH Columbia It was going to be long, but the forecasts failed and after 8:30 p.m., when the first numbers of the election scrutiny projections began to arrive, runoff 2024, The weather began to change and the first celebrations were felt for the victory of Yamandu Orsi.
The candidate’s command team was meeting on the 1st floor of the hotel and in the adjoining room the FA secretariat and political table were meeting, studying the estimates with great satisfaction. The first applause rang out on the floor and the first to appear with a triumphant smile on the stairs was the president of the political force, Fernando Pereira, who tried to get close to the journalists between hugs.
“It is the triumph of the militants,” said Pereira.
“This victory is that of tens of thousands of militants,” said Pereira in statements to Scope and warned: “Now another task begins, which is to address, for example, the situation of a large number of Uruguayans who earn less than 25 thousand pesos.”
“It will not be from one day to the next, but it is a priority,” he stated firmly when asked what the first steps to take should be.
While Pereira continued to be sought by national and international media, other leaders also began their celebration. All that remained was to wait for the trends to be confirmed and for the call to recognize the result by Alvaro Delgado, fact that he arrived approximately an hour later.
The Broad Front militancy erupted in the streets
That’s when the crowd broke out and the presenter Juan Maldonado, As tradition goes, he announced to the crowd present that there was a president and vice president-elect: Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse.
“It is a pride for me as a Broad Front to have that responsibility, I had a feeling that we were winning. I get carried away by emotion and people accompany me in every slogan I raise, but I knew that tonight was special,” the person in charge of announcing all the Frente Amplista triumphs to the militancy since 2005 told Ámbito.
As Cosse and Orsi approached the stage after Maldonado’s emotional presentation, the Old City of Montevideo It was already a total party, which then moved to July 18 for several hours.
In the street, young people of various ages hugged and jumped. The drums of the Uruguayan candombe met with the murga drummers on the corner with Andes, meters from the Executive Tower.
In the middle of all that the musician Mario Carrero, member of one of the most important folk music duos in the country, guitar in hand was present.
The Frente Amplio reached the Presidency for the fourth time in its history.
Source: Ambito
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