Yamandu Orsi, left, is tipped to be the next president of Uruguay

Candidate opponent Yamandu OrsiFront Amplio won the second round of the elections Uruguay este domingo, according to the first projections, y He will rule the country from March 1, 2025 to March 1, 2030.

About 2.7 million citizens voted in the second round of presidential elections in Uruguay. Pots closed at 19:30 local time (23:30 in Spain).

National Party official Alvaro Delgado congratulated Orsi on his victory.The president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, has no changes in social networks.

“I called @OrsiYamandu to congratulate him as our country's president-elect and put him in charge and start the transition, he barely understands,” Lacalle Pou said on his social media account.

Like what happened in the presidential and parliamentary elections in October. In this case, voting is mandatory y quien no acudió bir las urnas será multado.

Candidate of José 'Pepe' Mujica

Forty years after Uruguay's first elections after the civil-military dictatorship of 1973-1985, twenty years after Tabare Vázquez's first victory, Front Amplio will return to government By the hand of the political integrator of the sector led by Jose 'Pepe' in the South American country Mujicaquien también fue jefe de Estado and twice.

Nothing for several decades History professor y por una popular gestioni en una región 'bisgagra' entre la ciudad y el campo de Uruguay was the seed that the former mandate saw could germinate the Yamandu presidency.

The son of a tailor and a farmerYamandu Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez was born on June 13, 1967, the day one of the country's worst frosts of the century was recorded, in the capital of the Department of Canelons in the department (province) of Uruguay, and he lived his early years in the “campaign” ( como se suele referirse en Uruguay a los parajes rurales).

There, his father devoted himself to selling grapes to wineries, but in his five years everything changed, the old man was diagnosed with a herniated disc, and the family had to move to the city, where they moved to a warehouse.

During the dictatorship, It attracts figures like 'Che' Guevarahe became interested in politics. In 1985 the Democratic Reopening Lived Again, Orsi a military and las filas frenteamplistas empezó.

Shortly before joining the Movimiento de Participación Popular (MPP), formed in 1989 by “Pepe” Mujica and other former guerrillas of the Movimiento de Liberation Nacional-Tupamaros, he Relaciones Internacionales que un mes cambió por el professorado de History.

While studying in Montevideo, he began teaching classes under the impression that he was sitting in the tarima docente para ponerse en ronda a la par de ellos.

“Era toda una nueva onda (…), rompíamos con aquel esquema del profesor allá arriba”, he said in an interview.

After his first marriage, the current presidential candidate met and married Laura Alonsoperez in the decade of 2000 and had twin sons Lucia and Victorio in 2012.

Secretario de la Intendencia de Canelones During the two terms of pre-amplista Marcos Carambula, in 2015 he was elected to replace him as mayor, holding the position several times and until 2025 when he resigned on March 1, 2024 to run for president would stay.

Last Wednesday, as he closed the campaign trail in the town of Las Piedras, he broke down what he wanted to do to get into power.

“El proximo domingo tendremos que for decisive projects. el proyecto de la certidumbre“, un concepto que para él significa que en el país se siga invirtiendo para crecer.

“I want to be the president of Uruguay. Solo for planes and other planes. Hay uno solo y hacia eso voy. He declared this Sunday when he came early to vote.